Quote by Michael Kinsley
It wouldnt be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the

It wouldnt be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause. – Michael Kinsley

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In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy. – Michael Kinsley

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Marriage
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The logic is often far-fetched – how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? – and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks. – Michael Kinsley

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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying. – Mikhail Bakunin

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It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. – Thomas Mann

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If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present. – Franz Boas

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The battle for womens rights has been largely won. – Margaret Thatcher

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The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning — and the younger generation doesn’t think much of it either. – John J. Welsh

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Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. – Montaigne

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