once said something along these lines: "I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
It was François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire.
As much as I can only wonder at the confusion attendant upon coming into the world half English and half French, Monsieur Arouet famously distrusted democracy, which he saw as propagating the idiocy of the masses, something you're rather good at yourself, dannyalliga.
Voltaire's intended last words have something in them for us all.
"I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition."
Happily, he went on to live another three months, though, and when asked on his deathbed by a priest to renounce the devil and turn to God, he is alleged to have replied, "Now is no time to be making new enemies", a witticism later wrongly attributed to Oscar Wilde.
Oscar's last words were rather more prosaic.
Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.
I wait in wonder at what your final words might be, dannyalliga?
How about you let this poor old thread die in peace, or is it that you're so involved in seeing it drag on and on, devoid of new thinking, that you just can't let go...another thing evident in your endlessly disappointing expressions of third-rate sentiment.