“We are now considering legislation based on statistics that include name-calling at public rallies as crimes. Are we going on to the school yards of this country and when two kids get angry with each other and call each other…

“The cultivation – even celebration – of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today’s culture of complaint.” George Will, (1941-) American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author. Source Reference George Will Quote

“It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.” William Kingdon Clifford, (1845-1879) English mathematician and philosopher. Source Reference William Kingdon Clifford Quote

“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.” Thomas Carlyle, (1795-1881) Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian. Source Reference Thomas Carlyle Quote

“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.” Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865) 16th US President. Source Reference Abraham Lincoln Quote

“I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.” Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President. Source: Letter to David Hartley;…

“Religious liberty is the chief cornerstone of the American system of government, and provisions for its security are embedded in the written charter and interwoven in the moral fabric of its laws.  Anything that tends to invade a right so…

“It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man’s religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to…

“Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.” William Cullen Bryant, (1794-1878). Source: The Battle-Field (1839), st. 9., Poems, by William Cullen Bryant, 1854. Source Reference William Cullen Bryan Quote

“There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.” Richard Bach, Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah. Source Reference Richard Bach Quote

“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you” Jean-Paul Sartre, (1905-1980). Source Reference Jean-Paul Sartre Quote

“And this I must fight against: any idea, religion or government which limits or destroys the individual.  This is what I am and what I am about.  I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to…