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21 " The Herald Tribune headed the story, “PRESIDENT SAYS PRAYER IS PART OF DEMOCRACY.” The implication in such a pronouncement, emanating from the seat of government, is that religious faith is a condition, or even a precondition, of the democratic life. "
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22 " I distrust the slightest hint of a standard for political rectitude, knowing that it will open the way for persons in authority to set arbitrary standards of human behavior. "
23 " child was left out in the cold, bearing the stigma of being different. It is this one child that our Constitution is concerned about—his tranquillity, his health, his safety, his conscience. What a kindly old document it is, and how brightly it shines, through interpretation after interpretation! "
24 " I hope that Belief never is made to appear mandatory. "
25 " I was sorry for her, as I am for any who are evicted from their haunts by the younger and stronger—always a sad occasion for man or beast. "
26 " Any husband who loses interest in the drama of family life, as it unfolds, isn’t worth his salt. "
27 " The value of the liberal in the republic is not that he is logical but that he is inquisitive. "
28 " As for business, we agree that it is a hard, cold-blooded game. Survival of the fittest. Dog eat dog. The fact that about eighty-five per cent of the dogs have recently been eaten by the other dogs perhaps explains what long ago we noticed about business: that it had a strong smell of boloney. If dog continues to eat dog, there will be only one dog left, and he will be sick to his stomach. "
29 " much of life is insupportable and that no individual play can have a happy ending. "
30 " The greatest dangers to liberty,” said Mr. Brandeis, “lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. "