Peter Trei wrote about my signature:
It's this last sig-quote that bothers me. It's worth noting that, unlike the other two, it has no attribution. It looks like an inversion of Benjamin Franklin's:
" They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Historical Review of Pennsylvania
It is an inversion of that quotation and it does indeed sum up our focus. It has no name on it because I switched it around to make a motto for our work. Not that I disagree with Franklin though. The comment is true both ways around.
People usually put in their .sigs quotes they feel sum up their personal philiosophy. I guess soon we'll see 'Gabriel' give us some more words to live by; these may be right up his alley:
"War is Peace" "Ignorance is Strength" "Freedom is Slavery" - Orwell, "1984"
:) As a former teacher at the University of London department of adult studies, teaching history, politics and International Relations I can assure you I am very familiar with the history and belief of totalitarianism - and have opposed them all my life.
Gabriel's also misquoting Burke - the actual text is: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. "
That's not how I have it but hey! Obviously we are dealing here with a man who knows his quotes. Gabriel ********************************************************* "Two people may disagree, but that does not mean that one of them is evil" *********************************************************