This is my favorite quote. Although we can be sure old Ben never forsaw the age we live in, I still feel this quote is apt. Homeland security, the Patriot Act and all the other measures we've taken to "protect" ourselves from Osama and all the other Boogey men out there have significantly reduced our privacy and personal freedom. We now expect to wait in lines for hours, go through several checkpoints and take our shoes off just to board a plane. We now accept that we can't take a bottle of mouthwash or nail scissors on board because they could be used to hijack the aircraft. If all terror threats disappered tomorrow, would we see an end to security screening. Of Course Not! The Office of Homeland Security and the whole Security Industry would invent new threats to justify their existance. We either take Ben's advice to heart or accept the fact that we're nothing more than worker insects blindly following directions without thought. Personal privacy and freedom have a cost, they're something you have to be willing to defend. So if loosening the travel restrictions and removing the governments ability to collect your personal information means it's a little easier for terrorists to attack, I'm willing to accept that to keep my Liberty.

She's saying each generation must fight for Liberty and Freedom against those who would take power and choice away from us. Where people don't fight for their liberty, tyrants and dictators rule. Liberty cannot be given, from one country to another or even from one generation to another. Only when everyone stands up and declares for Liberty and Freedom and is willing to put their life on the line for it, will a free society exist.