Inconvenienced By Degree

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
―    Thomas Jefferson
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On This Day In:
2015	Sincerity
2014	Prayers For Junior
	Senseless
2013	Interesting Drink
	Super Bowl XLVII Declared A No Bird Zone
2012	Smile
2011	Come Forward

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Feeling Endangered?

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
—    Earl Warren
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On This Day In:
2015	One Day
2014	Too Bad
2013	Unfinished
2012	First Steps Along The Path
2011	A Small Part Of Future Webs

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Animate And Encourage

Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.
―    George Washington
[Or to any terrorist – foreign or domestic…   —    KMAB]
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On This Day In:
2015	In Time
2014	Robust Interconnectivity
2013	What Have We Here?
2012	Tributaries And Eddies
	An Honest Politician
2011	Penultimate

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What The Framers Chose

The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do.  They too had lived in dangerous days;  they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought.  They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty.  They chose liberty.
—    William O. Douglas
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2020	Explaining And Gilding
	That Way
2019	Lead To Action
2018	Listen And See
2017	The Big Illusion
2016	What Are You Thinking About?
2015	What The Framers Chose
2014	Lost Anything Lately?
	A Life Of Science
2013	Serve The World
2012	Acquaintance, n.
2011	On Why His Father Was A Great Teacher
	A Baker’s Dozen

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Liberty Is Extravagant

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
—    Thurgood Marshall
Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
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On This Day In:
2014	Always Remember To Reach
	Have You Registered To Vote Yet?
2013	Ripples From The Water’s Edge
	Because I Was Alone
2012	POI vs Reality
	Dear And Sacred
2011	Chilled Again

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Determining Our Degree Of Freedom

The degree of our worthiness to become a free people shall be determined by our ability to respect a lawful leader, to agree to the existence of an opposition, to listen to its arguments, and especially to put the nation’s good above all party prejudices and private interest.  Liberty is not one of man’s inalienable rights’.  It is a desirable but difficult acquisition, and must be contended for constantly.
—    André Maurois
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On This Day In:
2012	Journalism And Fantasy
	Known Knowns
	Jerk, n.
2011	Love Questions

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