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April 01, 2006

?The ;d who looked out upon the earth and pronounced it ;od designed us to glorify Him as free men and not as serfs.?
The Wall Street Journal, December 31, 1999

?In a nutshell, I?m pro-choice. It [abortion] is one of the most intensely personal issues and should be decided by a woman, her doctor, her husband, if she has one, and her ;d. I don?t believe the ;vernment should intrude in people?s personal lives.?
Brad Henry, quoted in the Tulsa World, October 27, 2002

?Most despotisms, in fact, have had little power over everyday life; it is only a particular kind of modern state that has gained the power to rear children and invent money.?
Thomas Fleming, Chronicles magazine, October 1998

?Getting ready for Easter? In St. Paul, Minnesota, city hall removed a display of an Easter bunny, pastel eggs, and a sign with the words ?Happy Easter? because they might offend non-Christians. ;od thing. You certainly don?t want anything Christian tainting a city called St. Paul.?
Jay Leno

?If a private enterprise is a failure, it closes down ? unless it can get a ;vernment subsidy to keep it ;ing; if a ;vernment enterprise fails, it is expanded. I challenge you to find exceptions.?
Milton Friedman

?I think that when it comes to the training of human beings, you have to be a great deal more careful than you do in other spheres about the preservation of the right of individual liberty and the principle of individual responsibility; and I think we ought to be plain about this ? that unless we preserve the principles of liberty in this department there is no use in trying to preserve them anywhere else. If you give the bureaucrats the children, you might as well give them everything else as well.?
Dr. J. Gresham Machen, testifying before the Senate Committee on Education and Labor and the House Committee on Education, February 25, 1926

?I?m not a thief.?
OSU president David Schmidly, quoted March 30 in a front-page story in the Wall Street Journal, defending OSU?s plan ? backed by the power of eminent domain ? to buy the homes of low-income residents unwilling to sell

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