Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/23/84; site ucbcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxb!mhuxn!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!faustus From: faustus@ucbcad.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Conscription/Slavery Message-ID: <75@ucbcad.UUCP> Date: Sat, 26-Jan-85 01:00:48 EST Article-I.D.: ucbcad.75 Posted: Sat Jan 26 01:00:48 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 28-Jan-85 05:27:47 EST References: <1203@drusd.UUCP> <676@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> Organization: UC Berkeley CAD Group, Berkeley, CA Lines: 15 > > "Those who would enjoy the blessings of liberty > > must endure the burden of supporting it." > > - Thomas Payne > >I believe he wrote that at Washington's headquarters before the Continental > >Army's retreat to Valley Forge. People seemed to get the idea across with > >fewer words a couple of centuries ago, didn't they? > > Right. So let those who don't want the blessing not endure the burden, > as opposed to throwing them in jail. > >