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June 16, 2005

QotD: Freedom

Where government advances — and it advances relentlessly — freedom is imperiled; community impoverished; religion marginalized and civilization itself jeopardized . . . When did government cease to be a necessary evil and become a goody bag to solve our private problems?

Janice Rogers Brown, "Hyphenasia: the Mercy Killing of the American Dream," Speech at Claremont-McKenna College (Sept. 16, 1999). Linked from People for the American Way anti-Brown quotes page.

Posted by Nicholas at June 16, 2005 12:08 AM
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