From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2005-12-02:
"It is the very nature of a democracy that it not only does, but should, fight with one hand tied behind its back. It is also in the nature of democracy that it prevails against its enemies precisely because it does." -- Michael Ignatieff, in The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror, Chapter 1. (2004)(submitted to the mailing list by Mike Krawchuk)