Rhetoric then and now

[donhakman]

"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

"Go fuck yourself."
-- Dick Cheney, 2004





PS Has anyone heard the electro magnetic music of Saturn?

[Kanary]

1. IT's bad enough that this country has been taken over by the RW

anti-constitutional, anti-truth, anti-free speech Reich Wing. That, in itself, is enough to make a person wretch.

But, looking around DU and seeing more and more how people are getting crapped on for having their own opinions, and seeking the truth........

Looks hopeless to me.

Kanary