[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13076]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



  HE WHO SACRIFICES LIBERTY FOR SAFETY WILL HAVE NEITHER LIBERTY NOR 
                                 SAFETY

  (Mr. TIAHRT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TIAHRT. Mr. Speaker, today we take up the Consequence For 
Juvenile Offenders Act. It is my hope that all of us here in America 
will realize that more laws will not mean more safety. We seem so 
willing to give up our freedom for just a feeling of a little more 
safety. The truth is we will not be more safe until we deal with the 
real problem, the root problem, the human heart.
  Two young men in Colorado broke more than 23 laws by brutally 
murdering 13 students, one teacher, and then took their own lives. One 
more law, a dozen more laws, would not have stopped them. They needed a 
change of heart.
  Ben Franklin said he who sacrifices liberty for safety will have 
neither liberty nor safety.
  As parents, as neighbors, let us not give up our personal freedoms. 
Instead let us deal with the real problem. Listen to the children, be a 
good neighbor, get involved in the community, and together let us make 
a better America.

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