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You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets “iffy”, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. -Erma Bombeck-

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My Nation’s journey toward justice has not been easy, and it is not over. The racial bigotry fed by slavery did not end with slavery or with segregation. And many of the issues that still trouble America have roots in the bitter experience of other times. But however long the journey, our destination is set: liberty and justice for all. -George W. Bush-

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I am a liberal person opposed to all unnecessary state limitation of individual liberties. Hermeneutics between consenting adults should not, in my view, be the object of any statutory restrictions. I know, only too well, what it would entail. Hermeneutic speakeasies would spring up all over the place, smuggled Thick Descriptions would be brought in by … the Mafia, … Addicts would be subject to blackmail. Consumption of deep meanings … would in no way diminsh, but the criminal world would benefit, and the whole fabric of civil society would be put under severe strain. Never! -Ernest Gellner-