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Voltaire didn't actually say that, just so you know ( http://forum.quoteland.com/1/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=586192041&f=099191541&m=1821902341 ). But I do agree with the sentiment.

Una salus victus nullam sperare salutem.

Possible definitions:

• The one safety for the vanquished is to abandon hope of safety knowing there is no hope can give one the courage to fight and win.
  Yuni
• The one hope of the doomed is not to hope for safety.
  From Virgil's Aeneid, Bk II.354
  Quoteland forum / Mechreg

... The US Supreme Court disagrees with you. As do some of the USA's Founding Fathers, otherwise they would have signed their names on the Federalist Papers.

Falcon

Great reference Falcon, thank you. Made me think....

They might have reversed the decision, however the damage was done, IMO. It's not about the law, you could argue the legal system worked, but I do not think so. Especially given how fast time moves in and on the internet.

Rather I look at how much damage could have been done in the ensuing time frame before the corrections (freedoms repressed and/or made illegal) How many things could have been changed based on this obvious miscarry of justice based admittedly on miss interpretation of other case law? This would be an affront to every citizen's rights and freedoms over the next seven years before it was overturned?

Started in 1988 and finally decided by the Supreme Court of the United States; No.93-986 in get this....drum roll please....on April 19, 1995.

From 1988 to 1995, 7 years later. What damage can be done to Freedom, rights, the internet in 7 years, to you personally .... (Might you even be 'disappeared' in the name of Homeland Security, National Security, the war against terror (with laws that restrict us, the terrorist indeed win) Don't get me wrong, I love the United States and would not want to live anywhere else, however I don't love the many abuses our own government inflicts on us, its citizens, in the name of some holier-then-thou purpose and I do try to vote to prevent it...failing badly so far....

If you don't believe that the US Government has experimented on us, its citizens, then you are ignoring facts of our History, I have military in my family, sadly some of our military are the biggest guinea pigs - its wrong and nothing will ever make it right!

Don't get mad at me for stating facts, and don't mod me down and make my karma worse, someone has already wrongly done this once. Supposedly it will even out over time, guess we will see!

What if actions take place in the next 2 or 3 years after an event that prevent the redress from happening 7 years later. I doubt that anyone ever went back and re-addressed that tax she was utilizing her rights of free speech in attempts to prevent.

You know the poem, "They came for the ... others, and I said nothing ... when they finally came for me, there was no one left to speak for me ..."

7 years is a life time on the internet, based on SCRUM/AGILE principals, you could argue that 7 years is well over 42 years, that use to be a lifetime for many (2 months / scrum), many could effectively argue 84 years, that is a lifetime for many today (1 month / scrum), though I don't agree with those that argue more years then 84, (scrums shorter then 30 days) me does think they scrum much too fast for their teams own good.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - penned by Evelyn Beatrice Hall under pen name S. G. Tallentyre, often mistakenly attributed to Voltaire, though many have searched and it does not appear in any of Voltaire's writings. I would change it to this "I dont have to agree with you, but I MUST defend with my life your RIGHT to say it, else I don't deserve that RIGHT! - lamapper, circa 2008. (yea I know not original, however I do believe that and think every American citizen

Do you think the U.S.A will last forever?
Does anything last forever?
Check out this quote by Lincoln

The original quote was from Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. Definately one of, if not the first literary hacker. He does with words what only the frenzied few can do with code.
Links:
http://www.quoteland.com/qldb/author/6?qlSess=03ba 3cfa64493982c9965db8ddb0b7e8
http://www.twainquotes.com/Death.html
The previous page rather seems to exert that the quote in question is urban legendish.

Actually, I remember that being Dan Quayle... gonna go look that up...

Yep, it's Dan Quayle.

That was pepsi.
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