But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not on the streets of our cities.
ANTONIN SCALIATo many Americans, everything from the Easter morning to the Ascension had to be made up by the groveling enthusiasts as part of their plan to get themselves martyred.
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Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ’s sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.
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Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is “established by the State”.
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I think the main fight is to dissuade Americans from what the secularists are trying to persuade them to be true: that the separation of church and state means that the government cannot favor religion over nonreligion.
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The principal purpose of stare decisis is to protect reliance interest and further stability in the law.
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A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.
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You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations until they were all litigated out.
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This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.
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The wise do not investigate such silliness.
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People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.
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There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.
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On this day, when we’re celebrating our constitutional heritage, I urge you to be faithful to that heritage – to impose on our fellow citizens only the restrictions that are there in the Constitution, not invent new ones, not to invent the right because it’s a good idea.
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Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.
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The attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, that is what has to be changed. I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms.
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This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?
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A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.
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