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Let us revise our views and work from the premise that all laws should be for the welfare of society as a whole and not directed at the punishment of sins. John Biggs Jr	added by Normando 5 years ago
The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach. Hugo Black	added by Normando 5 years ago
You should be allowed to do whatever you want with your own person and property, as long as you don't physically harm the person or property of a nonconsenting other. Peter McWilliams	added by Normando 5 years ago
That's the trouble, of course: we have taken sins out of God's domain, where they can be forgiven, and put them in the domain of law, where they can only be plea-bargained. Peter McWilliams	added by Normando 5 years ago
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects. Andrew Johnson	added by Normando 5 years ago
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought—not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate. Oliver Wendell Holmes	added by Normando 5 years ago
We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land—nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution. Daniel Webster	added by Normando 5 years ago
There can be no prescription old enough to supersede the Law of Nature and the grant of God Almighty, who has given to all men a natural right to be free, and they have it ordinarily in their power to make themselves so, if they please. James Otis	added by Normando 5 years ago
I think your slogan Liberty or Death is splendid and whichever one you decide on will be all right with me. Alexander Woollcott	added by Normando 5 years ago
The self-evident truths announced in the Declaration of Independence are not truths at all, if taken literally; and the practical conclusions contained in the same passage of that Declaration prove that they were never designed to be so received. William Pinkney	added by Normando 5 years ago
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and governments to gain ground. Thomas Jefferson	added by Normando 5 years ago
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived have forced me to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions. Thomas Jefferson	added by Normando 5 years ago
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin	added by Normando 5 years ago
That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment. Oliver Wendell Holmes	added by Normando 5 years ago
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.	added by Normando 5 years ago
Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. Richard Armey	added by Normando 5 years ago
The mind is a Rascal! It stops us from being the Soul. We need to be Conscious of the Truth, and we must take Control. AiR	added by AIR 5 years ago
Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	added by Normando 5 years ago
If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue. George H. W. Bush	added by Normando 5 years ago
The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion. George Washington	added by Normando 5 years ago
We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down. William F. Buckley Jr.	added by Normando 5 years ago
That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by Normando 5 years ago
No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed. Helen Keller	added by Normando 5 years ago
Why doesn't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone? Jimmy Durante	added by Normando 5 years ago

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