[83389] in Cypherpunks
Re: Keepers of the keys
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Clow)
Sat Jul 19 12:22:30 1997
In-Reply-To: <19970719074314.59778@bywater.songbird.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 08:51:25 -0700
To: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Marshall Clow <mclow@owl.csusm.edu>
Reply-To: Marshall Clow <mclow@owl.csusm.edu>
At 7:43 AM -0700 7/19/97, Kent Crispin wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 18, 1997 at 10:10:37PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
>[usual rant deleted]
>>
>> Kill the key grabbers and all those who support them. Isn't it exactly what
>> Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and the others would have argued?
>
>Amazing. Patriotism -- the last refuge of the scoundrel.
>
>However, Patric Henry said something like "Give me liberty or give me
>death." That is really very different from "Kill everyone who opposes
>me and all their supporters." Tim doesn't seem to understand this
>nuance.
>
I think Tim is thinking of:
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time,
with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
which, of course, was written by Jefferson.
-- Marshall
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