[Knitting A Conundrum]

You know, what has amazed me reading over the founding fathers were how right they were about how fragile a thing liberty is, and how people would misuse and abuse power, and what would happen once public and private virtue slipped.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

...what has amazed me reading over the founding fathers were how right they were about how fragile a thing liberty is, and how people would misuse and abuse power,

Hence the Second Amendment. The nations flush handle.

[T'wit]

For your collection -- I always specially liked this one.

"The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him; and . . . all economics, politics, laws, armies, and institutions, save insofar as they prolong and multiply such scenes, are a mere ploughing of the sand and sowing of the ocean, a meaningless vanity and vexation of the spirit." -- C. S. Lewis