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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 04:13 PM
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A message to all of you Lurking Freepers
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."

- Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776
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kaygore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 04:14 PM
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1. Well said!
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 09:56 PM
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24. ah. Sam Adams. Lovely. And he makes great beer.
:)
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 04:15 PM
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2. Absolutely great quote! Thanks.
nt
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 04:15 PM
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3. I guess ole' Sam knew somethin' about what "freedom" really means.
:hi:
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 04:32 PM
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14. I think they all did.
"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

They had to lay it on the line for it.

As will we, if we want to get it back.
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Joey Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 04:15 PM
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4. Great post! n.t
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shaniqua6392 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 04:16 PM
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5. I will drink to that!!
Well said.
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Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 04:32 PM
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15. Ditto - Can someone pass me a Sam Adams?
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 04:16 PM
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6. Sam Adams suits me
Like him, I am obnoxious and disliked.
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 04:29 PM
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10. Um,...
,...I'd imagime only by those whose delusions you poke and challenge.

:hug:
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 04:31 PM
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11. Well, mostly...
I can be too loud and a bit insensitive at times.
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Spock_is_Skeptical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 04:17 PM
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7. I love that quote!
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 04:24 PM
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8. Thanks, but do you really think they'll understand that?
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 04:25 PM
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9. The 4-5% with IQs above room temperature might. nt
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RoBear Donating Member (781 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 04:57 PM
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17. LOL!
Thanks.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 04:58 PM
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18. Keep Hope Alive!
;)
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benburch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 09:55 PM
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23. Sadly...
If most freepers lost a few point of IQ, we'd have to water them;

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RoBear Donating Member (781 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 04:56 PM
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16. I had the same thought.
How could anyone who supports * POSSIBLY understand all them there big words.
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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 04:31 PM
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12. Why do you hate America?
:P
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KyndCulture Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 04:32 PM
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13. Oh yeah!! Perfect...
Edited on Sat Aug-13-05 04:32 PM by KyndCulture
goes with my html links for all the recruiting websites that I'm posting on every freeper comment I read today. Perfect. Thanks Ben.
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steve2470 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 04:59 PM
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19. Recommended ! nt
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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 05:05 PM
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20. I love trolls, I have a million of them








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Chichiri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 05:23 PM
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21. Amen to that.
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blue sky at night Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 07:15 PM
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22. Had this quote in my window last fall........
on the Anti-Bush Mobile. This is truly a poke in the eye for lazy, ignorant americans.......repuke or dems. I used it on one of my brethren who refused to even sport a Kerry/Edwards Bumper sticker, you know "what would people think??" fuck them.
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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 10:02 PM
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25. The real radicals of our revolution
were men like Adams and Paine.
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