While people try from time to time to bury that spirit beneath an avalanche of lawsuits, technicalities and decrees, every American knows that profound notions of fairness, justice, equality, and civility define us and bind us.
Address to the Nation on the Supreme Court Nomination of Clarence Thomas
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