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It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. – Noel Coward Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will of a majority; a form of government, as in all other unlimited ones, in which injustice, violence, and force must ultimately prevail. – John C. Calhoun Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the latent spark... If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference? – John Adams Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts – Bergman Evans Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense -- the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen. – William E. Borah Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Fidelity to the public requires that the laws be as plain and explicit as possible, that the less knowing may understand, and not be ensnared by them, while the artful evade their force. – Samuel Cooke Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened by convictions. – Alexander Chase Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
The First Amendment does not require students to leave their religion at the schoolhouse door. … If students can wear T-shirts advertising sports teams, rock groups or politicians, they can also wear T-shirts that promote religion. … Religion is too important to our history and our heritage for us to keep it out of our schools. – Bill Clinton Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: It exists in spite of its ministers.” – Heinrich Heine Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get more for not working than you will for working, and more for not raising a hog than for raising it. – Will Rogers Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
The decidedly Christian nature of these prayers must not be dismissed as the relic of a time when our Nation was less pluralistic than it is today. Congress continues to permit its appointed and visiting chaplains to express themselves in a religious idiom. … To hold that invocations must be nonsectarian would force the legislatures … and the courts … to act as … censors of religious speech. … Government may not mandate a civic religion that stifles any but the most generic reference to the sacred any more than it may prescribe a religious orthodoxy … – Justice Anthony Kennedy Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
In Torcaso v. Watkins, (1961), we did indeed refer to ‘secular humanism’ as a ‘religion’. – Antonin Scalia Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Among the religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, ethical culture, secular humanism and others. – Hugo Black Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Well-meaning Americans in the name of freedom have taken freedom away. For the sake of religious tolerance, they’ve forbidden religious practice. – President Ronald Reagan Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed by the Convention, where I had the honor to preside, might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical Society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it. – George Washington Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all, for no one is bound to obey an unjust law. – Harlan F. Stone Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
[T]he Swiss people are the best practitioners of the ideals of non-aggression. The Swiss national government posts are parttime positions. Most decisions are made at the canton (state) level. Swiss per capita income is the highest in the world, showing that non-aggression pays. How did the Swiss come to adopt a relatively non-aggressive constitution in an aggressive world? In the mid-1800s, they imitated our constitution and stuck with it! – Mary J. Ruwart Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. – C.S. Lewis Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination. – Jonathan Kozol Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
The state may not establish a ‘religion of secularism’ in the sense of affirmatively opposing or showing hostility to religion, thus ‘preferring those who believe in no religion over those who do believe. – Justice Potter Stewart Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart noted (in his dissent of Abington Township, 1963) ‘if religious exercises are held to be impermissible activity in schools, religion is placed at an artificial and state-created disadvantage. Permission for such exercises for those who want them is necessary if the schools are truly to be neutral in the matter of religion. And a refusal to permit them is seen not as the realization of state neutrality, but rather as the establishment of a religion of secularism. – President Ronald Reagan Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
The highest art of the chessplayer lies in not allowing your opponent to show you what he can do. – Gary Kasparov Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Thus perhaps the most dangerous of all socialist attacks on America in the 1990s is the onslaught to register and confiscate America's firearms. America cannot be subjugated to communism or a socialist dictatorship until Americans are first disarmed. Poland has strict gun control; so does Cambodia, Russia, and Red China. Over 100 million people were brutally slaughtered in those countries, but first they were disarmed. The danger to people when they can't own guns is far greater than any danger gun ownership can ever create. – David S. McAlvaney Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
[I]f society acknowledges that handguns have significant defensive value and can help save the lives of police officers and security guards, how can society deny that handguns can also help save the lives of other people? – David B. Kopel Famous Quote	added 5 years ago

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