* Liberty Quotations (Quotes at Davar Web Site) 01/01/1998-07/01/2005 * -------------------------------------------------------------------- The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits. #Plutarch Those that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. #Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. #Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. #Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. #James Madison (1751-1836) Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it. #Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. #Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) ================================================================================ Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious. (page 102, chapter 9, "representation is the essence of programming", 1995 edition). Fredrick Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month