“Trust me, all this fuss over freedoms would fade in a mushroom-cloud moment if there were another attack on our soil.”
Referring to the NSA wiretap controversy. "Protecting the Homeland and our Privacy" http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,195184,00.html, FoxNews.com, (May 11, 2006).
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“Like a mushroom cloud!”
scoffed Balkister.
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Essay, written under the pseudonym "Candidus," in The Boston Gazette (14 October 1771), later published in The Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams (1865) by William Vincent Wells, p. 425
Context: The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have receiv'd them as a fair Inheritance from our worthy Ancestors: They purchas'd them for us with toil and danger and expence of treasure and blood; and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle; or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. Of the latter we are in most danger at present: Let us therefore be aware of it. Let us contemplate our forefathers and posterity; and resolve to maintain the rights bequeath'd to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. — Instead of sitting down satisfied with the efforts we have already made, which is the wish of our enemies, the necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom." It is a very serious consideration, which should deeply impress our minds, that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 13 (p. 140)

From Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche (1921): Brandes to Nietzsche, 23 November 1888.