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Quotation of the Day for December 10, 2010"It is a pleasing reflection, arising from the contemplation of our successful struggle...that liberty, which some years since appeared in danger of extinction, is now regaining the ground she had lost, that arbitrary governments are likely to become more mild and reasonable, and to expire by degrees, giving place to more equitable forms; one of the effects this of the art of printing, which diffuses so general a light, augmenting with the growing day, and of so penetrating a nature, that all the window-shutters despotism and priestcraft can oppose to keep it out, prove insufficient." - Benjamin Franklin, from a letter to Sir Edward Newenham, Oct. 2, 1783. [http://www.archive.org/stream/writingsofbenjam09franuoft/writingsofbenjam09franuoft_djvu.txt] Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 30, 2010 |
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