On Thu, 1 May 2008, Elaine Ashton wrote:

> LOL. I was going to say that it must have been Charlton Heston, but then 
> remembered the real quote which is:
>
> "Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away."

There seem to be a number of versions of this quote on the net. Some match 
the meaning above, but most others are more like "Freedom cannot be given, 
it must be taken".

Apparently, this is the tagline for the film Amistad 
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118607/). According to IMDB, that tagline 
is "Freedom is not given. It is our right at birth. But there are some 
moments when it must be taken."

You all lose points. Shlomi loses for quoting the tagline to a Spielberg 
film as if it were deep philosophy. Elaine loses for managing to find the 
negative version, when most net sources seem to go with the positive.


-dave

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