On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:55:32AM -0500, celejar wrote: > On 1/22/07, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:25:23AM -0600, John C wrote: > >> >I would rather be exposed to the inconvenience attending too much > >Liberty > >> >than those attending too small degree of it. > >> > - Thomas Jefferson
> >> By the way, I do love the quote. :-) > > > >So did I, as soon as I saw it. There are a lot of similarly great > >quotes from Jefferson and his friends, but this is one of the few that I > >can fit into a 4-line .sig. :) > > I would respectfully differ. This sort of thing is stirring but > somewhat content-free. I won't disagree with you. Many (most?) of the other great quotes I mentioned earlier are much better and I'd rather use them. But that this one (and the Franklin quote you mentioned) have the deciding advantage that they can be crammed into a four-line-by-70ish-column signature, while those with real meat to them are too large for that. -- I would rather be exposed to the inconvenience attending too much Liberty than those attending too small degree of it. - Thomas Jefferson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]