Quote #8

The First Amendment isn't about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise--the carrying into practice of religious principles, and beliefs, and convictions.

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  1. The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.
  2. There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.
  3. The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.
  4. There are times we don't want to hear about the need to temper our best hopes in order to achieve our most vital security. But we still nee…
  5. The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.
  6. Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.
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  8. In the great Declaration of our principles, it didn't say that all men are created equal 'if you so choose.' It said that all are created e…

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