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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. – Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952

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Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us. – Mitt Romney

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