tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8457067560968597598.post1368497962562706772..comments2024-03-18T09:18:57.616+00:00Comments on Howard Cooper's Blog: On the BNP and EuropeHoward Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499147712266456601noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8457067560968597598.post-30683242450731423322009-06-10T21:27:00.675+01:002009-06-10T21:27:00.675+01:00Paine (quoted in today's Guardian) reputedly t...Paine (quoted in today's Guardian) reputedly to Benjamin Franklin 'where liberty is not, there is my country'. John Keane p. 28 Also, 'it is useful to consider the famous remark by Voltaire from his Letters from England in which he notes that a state with one religiontends towards despotism, a state with two religions tends towards civil war, while a democratic state with thirty - like England - enables its citizens to pray after their fashion and sleep soundly at night'. Stephen Bronner, Reclaiming the Enlightenment, Columbia 2004 p 141<br />JeffAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com