[LINK] Can someone provide a quotation please

[Roger Clarke]

At 5:21 +1100 15/12/06, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>There's a passage that goes something like: "First they took our 
>???, but I didn't speak out because..."

<morning muse>

An older and shorter quote along the same theme is:

"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance"

although the original was apparently the other way around:
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty", attr. Wendell Phillips

And of course there's:

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to 
do nothing", attributed to Edmund Burke

In the age of 20-second grabs, I use this one:

             "There will always be another bigotry"

It works as well for the Cambodia of Pol Pot as it does for 
Kurdestan, Ruanda, Sebrenica and The Netherlands at the beginning of 
WWII.

I developed it as a variant on 'There will always be another moonrise'.

That was the title of (John Seely Brown's?) book on the 
untrustworthiness of fully-automated control systems.  The moon rose 
over Greenland, DEWS recognised that the USSR's entire ICBM arsenal 
was on its way, and prepared the US counter-missile system for 
launch.  No wonder they called it MAD.

</morning muse>

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