Re: Shuttle Ops in a Post-9/11 world



On Thu, 12 May 2005 19:02:30 -0500, Herb Schaltegger
<herb.schaltegger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Thu, 12 May 2005 12:51:01 -0500, Henry Spencer wrote
>(in article <IGE1L1.DEE@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

>> "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the
>> argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." -- William Pitt, 1783
>
>Read the quote in my .sig; it pre-dates Pitt's quote by 14 years.

>"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
>safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759

24 years, but close enough... It must have been inspiring to have lived
in an age when leaders were so idealistic. Perhaps we're just in a lull.

Dale
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