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Re: Oil hits $114/barrel - No end in sight.
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Originally Posted by Norrin Radd
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 |
Show me where a founding father said that those who hold opinions different from yours don't deserve to be Americans (and presumably should lose that status).
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