As a wise man once said.
"We pay a high price for our freedom, sometimes we pay with our lives" — Sir2u
Sir, I wonder sometimes if my children will ever understand what those before us fought and died for. — ArguingWAristotleTiff
The US is still young, and the pleasures of freedom are still fresh in the air. England Is old, they people have forgotten the fights for freedom that happened years or centuries ago. — Sir2u
Sometimes you truly do not understand the value of something you have until it's gone.The to an old man that had fought in both wars. He told me that not even those that went to war really understood what they were fighting for. Even when they were told that they were fighting for own freedom a lot of them did not know why they fought for something that they already had. — Sir2u
Sometimes you truly do not understand the value of something you have until it's gone. — ArguingWAristotleTiff
Evil will never dim our country's light of goodness and of her people who are Thankful to be able to call her home. — ArguingWAristotleTiff
Yeah, you're supposed to say, "what's updog?" to which I say, "not much dog, how bout you?" — Hanover
England Is old, they people have forgotten the fights for freedom that happened years or centuries ago. — Sir2u
No, I for one have not forgotten the First Barons War, Magna Carter, The Second Barons War, the Provisions of Oxford, the English Civil War, the Glorious Revolution, the Bill of Rights, Abolitionism & the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, the Suffragettes, the Representation of The People Act 1918, 1928 & 1969, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Bill of Human Rights, The Sexual Offences Act 1967 (decriminalised homosexuality), the Equal Pay Act 1970, and so on. — Sapientia
You weren't alive centuries ago either. — Sapientia
I don't like the patronising tone in that kind of comment. — Sapientia
It's not a game of Top Trumps. The point is that I haven't forgotten their importance, despite your offensive suggestion. — Sapientia
That's what I was referring to, genius. — Sapientia
Some rights are not worth having. If the right to have a gun effectively translates into the right to live in a more violent society and thus the right to suffer a greater risk of harm therein, you can take that right and stick it where the sun don't shine (with all due respect). — Baden
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