The privileges and immunities designated are those which of [natural and inalienable] right belong to the citizens of all free governments. Clearly among these must be place the right to pursue lawful employment in a lawful manner, without other restraint than such as equally affects all persons. Mr. Justice Stephen Field
Justice Stephen Field: Shaping Liberty from the Gold Rush to the Gilded Age, by Paul Kens. University Press of Kansas, 1997.
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In all things it is a good idea to hang a question mark now and then on the things we have taken for granted. Bertrand Russell
(1872-1970), English mathematician and philosopher
You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be! J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, p 708, 2000
Thus for the American Conservative, there is no difficulty in identifying the day’s overriding political challenge: it is to preserve and extend freedom. As he surveys the various attitudes and institutions and laws that currently prevail in America, many questions will occur to him, but the Conservative’s first concern will always be: Are we maximizing freedom? Barry Goldwater
Senator Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative (1909-1998)
My general view is that freedom means freedom for everyone. People … ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to. Dick Cheney
August 2004, reported Sept 6, 2004, US News & World Report
The chief business of the American people is business. The chief ideal of the American people is idealism. … America is a nation of idealists Calvin Coolidge
1925 speech to newspaper editors (Barron’s November 23, 1998), 30th President of the United States (1923-1929) 1872-1933.
Instead of arguing that Mr. Bush’s tax cut goes too far, we Democrats should be arguing that it doesn’t go far enough. Middle-class families need more tax relief now as America faces an economic threat we haven’t seen since the 1930s — the threat of deflation.The Federal Reserve has already cut interest rates to the lowest levels in 40 years, and there’s not much more it can do. This country needs a massive economic stimulus now, before we head down the road of falling prices, falling wages and falling home values. There is a way out and it works. Let’s cut taxes for individuals and business even more, right now. Zell Miller
U.S. Senator, Georgia, Democrat
‘If everybody minded their own business,’ the Duchess said, in a hoarse growl, ‘the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.’ Lewis Carroll
1832-1898
When opposite basic principles are clearly and openly defined, it works to the advantage of the rational side; when they are not clearly defined, but are hidden or evaded, it works to the advantage of the irrational side. Ayn Rand
1905-1982
Run when you hear any of the following in a sentence: humanity, the human condition, the human spirit. Roger Rosenblatt
From Rules for Aging, reported in U.S. News & World Report, January 8, 2001