"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.“


-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

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