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Two quotes today, topical despite being from forty years ago and a couple hundred years ago. Ah, «Plus ça change...», non?

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2005-07-14:

"The lie which is no longer challenged becomes lunacy." -- Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle 105

(submitted to the mailing list by Jeff Bickerstaff)

 

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2005-06-17:

"That the fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defence against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad." -- James Madison, U.S. President from 1809 to 1817, in his essay "Political Reflections", published in 1799.

(submitted to the mailing list by Terry Labach)