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"Compromise, hell! ... If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?"
-Wonder what he would've thought about the FISA bill?
"I will never be silent about the death of those who cannot speak for themselves"
-Like the thousands who died under the right-wing dictatorships he supported?
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As for the person who said people like him are a part of this country, "like it or not," I'm afraid I don't like it one bit, and I'm sure they don't like sharing a country with us either. The whole point of a constitutional democracy is that you're all supposed to at least agree on some basic fundamental principles upon which the country is founded. But 200+ years later, we're still fighting the battle of the Enlightenment while the rest of the Western world has moved on.
