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. - Alan Keyes

Harden our hearts to the innocents in the womb, and we have hardened our hearts to the need for compassion, and mercy, and fellow-feeling, and charity, and decency in this world.

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 equal by the power and the will of God, and that we must respect their rights as we respect that will.

The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.