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All nine Justices should tune out the bad-faith noise and feel totally free to do their jobs, following the facts and the law where they lead.

— Mitch McConnell Collins, Manchin and other lawmakers react to the Supreme Court draft opinion (2022)

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Breaking the rules to change the rules is un-American.

You're more likely to see Elvis again than to see this bill pass the Senate.

I call on every colleague to join me in standing up for the middle class instead of defending cynical, job-crushing regulations.

John treated every day, every issue, with the intensity and seriousness that the legislative process deserves. He would fight like mad to bring the country closer to his vision of the common good.

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Nobody is happy about losing lives but, remember, these are not draftees. These are full-time professional soldiers.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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