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Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should vote on each and every judicial appointment made by the President of the United States and that no rule or procedure should ever stop the Senate from exercising its constitutional responsibility.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise , fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.