Reading proceeds apace

[wealhtheow]

"Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates. The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to

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[benefitz]

Those founding fathers actually understood a thing or two, huh?

[gwillen]

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

I like the version ending "...deserve neither.", but WikiQuote claims the other one is the original.

[ilcylic]

Mmmmm, delicious federalist papers.