IP: For NYC and also to perhaps give some historical prospective to your list

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: Herb Schorr <schorr () ISI EDU>
> To: "Dave Farber (E-mail)" <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
> "The freedom which we enjoy in our democratic government extends also
> to our ordinary life.
> We throw open our city to the world, and never by alien acts exclude
> foreigners from any opportunity of learning or observing although the
> eyes of an enemy may occasionally profit by our liberality.
> We live exactly as we please and yet are just as ready to encounter
> every legitimate danger. If with habits not of labor but of ease, and
> courage not of art but of nature, we are still  willing to encounter
> danger, we have the double advantage of not suffering hardships
> before we need to, and of facing them in the hour of need as
> fearlessly as those who are never  free from them.
> The price of courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who
> best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are
> never tempted to shrink from danger.
> And it is only democratic people who, fearless of consequences,
> confer their benefits not from calculations of expediency but in the
> confidence of liberality.
> Judging happiness to be the fruit of freedom and freedom of valor
> never decline the dangers of war."
>  From "The Funeral Oration" by Pericles of Athens, 431 B.C.



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