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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots QUOTES

1 " Sugar Act modified an existing but rarely enforced law and added new goods—including sugar, certain wines, coffee, and calico— "

― David Fisher , Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots

2 " While Callender practiced the most salacious form of journalism, his explanation for it remained valid, pointing out: “The more that a nation knows about the mode of conducting its business, the better chance has that business of being properly conducted. "

― David Fisher , Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots

3 " Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence: nor is the law less stable than the fact; if an assault was made to endanger their lives, the law is clear, they had a right to kill in their own defense.” It was "

― David Fisher , Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots

4 " the Sedition Act was a direct challenge to the Bill of Rights. It specifically made it illegal for people to assemble “with intent to oppose any measure … of the government” or “print, utter, or publish … any false, scandalous and malicious writing … against the government.” Incredibly, "

― David Fisher , Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots

5 " Among many other slurs, the Republicans attacked the president as a “hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.” The Federalists were no better, calling Jefferson “a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father.” Even "

― David Fisher , Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots