Most people dislike Vanity in others, whatever Share they have of it …

Most people dislike Vanity in others, whatever Share they have of it themselves, but I give it fair Quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of Good to the Possessor and to others that are within his Sphere of Action: And therefore in many Cases it would not be quite absurd if a Man were to thank God for his Vanity among the other Comforts of Life. Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790

As a touchstone, Abood reached back to James Madison’s rhetorical question ‘…

As a touchstone, Abood reached back to James Madison’s rhetorical question ‘who does not see . . . that the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for the support of any one establishment, may force him to conform to any other establishment in all cases whatsoever?’ U.S. Supreme Court
431 U.S. at 234,35 n.31 (quoting 2 The Writings of James Madison 186 (Hunt ed. 1901))

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