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Originally Posted by pramjockey
And anyone who says that an American, any American, doesn't deserve liberty, or should not be allowed to be an American because of an opinion they have has no leg to stand on. |
You have a right to your opinion. I stated mine, which is based on the principles the USA was founded upon.
Thomas Paine wrote in his essay, Dissertation on the First Principles of Government...........
"An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
Dissertations on First Principles of Government