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SDsalsaguy
08-11-2004, 08:16 PM
"I have always strenuously supported
the right of every man to his own opinion,
however different that opinion might be to mine.
He who denies another this right makes a slave
of himself to his present opinion, because he
precludes himself the right of changing it."
~ Thomas Paine, 1783

"Free speech exercised both individually and
through a free press, is a necessity in any
country where people are themselves free."
~ Theodore Roosevelt, 1918

"The truth is found when men are free to pursue it."
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right
to tell people what they do not want to hear."
~ George Orwell, 1945

"Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of
his constitutional rights, we are weakening our
own claim to them."
~ Dwight David Eisenhower, 1963

"What is objectionable, what is dangerous about
extremists is not that they are extreme, but that
they are intolerant."
~ Robert F. Kennedy, 1964