Dana Perino (1972) Former White House Press Secretary
Press Briefing, December 4, 2008 http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/12/20081204-1.html http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/04/perino-downing-street-memo-debunked/
“Had it not been for Thomas Paine I could not deliver this lecture here to-night.
It is still fashionable to calumniate this man — and yet Channing, Theodore Parker, Longfellow, Emerson, and in fact all the liberal Unitarians and Universalists of the world have adopted the opinions of Thomas Paine.”
The Great Infidels (1881)
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