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To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license.


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We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system has been perhaps the most prominent instrument for administering racism. But the racism doesn't actually come from the criminal justice system.
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Economics evolved as a more moral and more egalitarian approach to policy than prevailed in its surrounding milieu. Let's cherish and extend that heritage. The real contributions of economics to human welfare might turn out to be very different from what most people - even most economists - expect.
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If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth.
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The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.


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Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare.
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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.


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I have written to Israel's friends around the world, including the U.S. Congress and the E.U., and asked them to make funding for the United Nations dependent on ending blatant discrimination against Israel at the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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There is a point at which even justice does injury.


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And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.
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I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain.
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After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women.


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A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.


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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund Burke
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Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge.
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The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.
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If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.
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