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When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation prem

When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world. – Eliot Spitzer

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I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in. – Eliot Spitzer

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Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do things that draws many talented people? Absolutely. Are there other ways to be involved and lead an interesting life? Of course. – Eliot Spitzer

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So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech. – Neil Gaiman

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You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you dont have any freedom left, or youre going to build a world that doesnt create terrorists – and that means a whole different way of getting along. – John Shelby Spong

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. – Mark Twain

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While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that whats on the line is American liberty itself. – Thomas Frank

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