Political Quotes

“we ought to thank the court. It brought us together, Democrats and Republicans, in unanimity, something that is seldom seen around here. Actually, though, the court's decision embarrasses us. We have been living in a dream world. Back in the Mayflower Compact in 1620, first sentence, ``in the name of God, amen.'' If we go on through that to the Declaration of Independence, ``We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and are endowed by their creator, with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.'' Our human rights are the endowment from the Creator. That is a fundamental premise of America, and it is in our birth certificate, the Declaration of Independence. The Treaty of Paris, which resolved the Revolutionary War, mentions God. Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863, in a cold, windy little cemetery in Pennsylvania asked a very haunting question, whether this Nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, can long endure, and the end of that greatest speech in American literature, he says that we here highly resolve but that these dead shall not have died in vain and that this Nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the Earth. So we are embarrassed by the decision. We have been barking up the wrong tree.…”