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Liberty Lover
24th March 2003, 08:23
"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-- John Stuart Mill

Ghost Writer
24th March 2003, 11:33
Excellent find, LL.

Chiak47
24th March 2003, 11:36
Not bad for a Englishman

Liberty Lover
25th March 2003, 09:32
Don't think you can get away that quickly