No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. ↗
But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers. ↗
They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them. ↗
I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available. ↗
You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement. ↗
