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Offline 5412

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Sad but true
« on: January 29, 2011, 03:55:41 PM »
It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. - Charles A. Beard

 
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Re: Sad but true
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2011, 04:38:05 PM »
Yep.  A couple of my wimmin relatives asked me if I was quoting Beck, Limbaugh, or Palin last time I quoted Paine and Jefferson in their hearing.
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Re: Sad but true
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2011, 04:56:10 PM »
Made all the more stunning by the fact that Beard was a dyed-in-the-wool liberal.
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