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The one thing you have to admire about the reactionary Re-publicans is their perseverance. They have been trying to kill the unions in this country and get rid of Social Security and other New Deal and Great Society programs for years, and they are getting closer and closer to their goal, much to the detriment of our nation. They do so in the name of "liberty," but Abraham Lincoln--a real Republican, meaning a true child of the Republic--had the final word in an address delivered in Baltimore, April 18, 1864:

"With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men and with other men's labor. Here are two not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name, liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names--liberty and tyranny."


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