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Mutt - I like the wry humor of that quote.
But the Americans decided to put shackles and chains on those thousand tyrants down the road, and at least for a very long time, it worked - though those in our Southern States with a mind toward tradition and history would tell me that the American political order, as it was intended by the Framers, died a very painful death at the hands of Abraham Lincoln in 1861 and the Radical Republicans of Reconstruction after his death. That sure did shake up relations between the federal government and states' rights.
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Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice. . . Restraint in the pursuit of Justice is no virtue.
Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964
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