Doug R:

I did not say that the quote was true. What is true is that our PR is so badly mangled that it is perceived as though true by an unknown quantity of people of whom this speaker was one. This is pretty thin gruel considering the importanceof the core values we should, as a nation, represent.

I am a liberal in the sense that I believe that the humanistic side of law is the senior side; that individual liberties are far more important than the convenience of business activity; that the best charity is in restoring productive value-producing employment to as many as possible; that one human voice may be right even when a thousand deny it; that the greatest destiny we can design for ourselves is to free our fellow man from oppression and provide a sane environment for human well being and the well being of other species. I also believe deeply in the historic importance of the Jeffersonian American experiment, and it pains me to see that being eroded by short-sighted Federalists. It has ever since Alexander Hamilton.

That's my version of liberalism.


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