will we water down the bill of rights, or will we be all on fire like the unstoppable william lloyd garrison? for 30 years, garrison stood as politicians whimpered and compromised and left their fellow man in bondage. garrison would not. .e could not sit quietly by he rose above those politicians that would leave the country half free, half slave. his voice was unwavering. i will be as harsh as truth and on compromising as justice. i will be in earnest. i will not equivocate. and i will not excuse, i will not retreat an inch, and i will be heard. [applause] will you, america's next generation of liberty lovers, will you stand and be heard? [applause] thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. the sons of liberty who fought against british soldiers writing their own warrants would today make a bonfire of the special orders issued by secret police. they would risk everything to guarantee your right to a trial by jury. they would today call out to the president, they would say "we will not be detained, spied upon, nor have our rights abridged. we will not submit and we will not trad

will we water down the bill of rights, or will we be all on fire like the unstoppable william lloyd garrisonfor 30 years, garrison stood as politicians whimpered and compromised and left their fellow man in bondage. garrison would not. .e could not sit quietly by he rose above those politicians that would leave the country half free, half slave. his voice was unwavering. i will be as harsh as truth and on compromising as justice. i will be in earnest. i will not equivocate. and i will not excuse, i will not retreat an inch, and i will be heard. [applause] will you, america's next generation of liberty lovers, will you stand and be heard? [applause] thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. the sons of liberty who fought against british soldiers writing their own warrants would today make a bonfire of the special orders issued by secret police. they would risk everything to guarantee your right to a trial by jury. they would today call out to the president, they would say "we will not be detained, spied upon, nor have our rights abridged. we will not submit and we will not trade

went from william lloyd garrison and all the way in between.e aside the weird mixed metaphor, but that creeped me out a little bit. there was a weird little line. other than that, the thing for rand paul as a presidential candidate, the thing that animates him that he was so on today, this civil liberty stuff. i think it's a critical issue. it's not going to drive a presidential race. it's going to be an issue when you talk about an attorney general or intelligence, you know, picking intelligence officials, but that's not the larger current of economics or foreign policy, you know, can he get animated, present division of something else. i think on that issue, he's very compelling. >> the other big speech today, although from my understanding, rand paul's was slightly better received. but rick perry was, as well. i spoke with him yesterday about what mistakes he made in 2012 that he won't repeat should he run in 2016. take a listen. >> i won't have major back surgery six weeks before -- >> good idea. >> the announcement. >> how much was that a

almost gotten killed while trying to escort i don't know whether it was wendell phillips or william lloyd garrisonere an angry to be in boston. so they thought the way in which the ideological elements of the war were being stripped away in the service of national reunion was bad thing. you know, they, they were accused by their editors of practicing aggressive northernism. and hay would sort of say, well, we've got to watch it, we've got to tone it down, but then his own chapters would be ludicrously northern this their perspectives -- in their perspectives. i think it's fair to say while they were very successful in rewriting lincoln, their recasting of the civil war against that kind of revisionism didn't hold up for very long. their interpretation wouldn't come back into vote until the modern civil rights era, the 1950s and '60s. we probably have time for one more if there is one morement of there doesn't need to be, but i think we do have one more. >> [inaudible] they lost their jobs. what did they do immediately after the assassination? >> they, actually, had not intended to stay. they were