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The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.

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A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.

It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.

There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.

The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

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