βThe best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.β
- Yeats
βBe careful of those that would fill you with passionate intensity, they are not your friends.β - Kirn
Freedom is what every essential disagreement or conflict has been about in the USA, possibly everywhere. Uniting an area as large as USA only works if based on fundamental principles like freedom - because everybody wants some - the problem seems to be when one side wants to define it for everyone.
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