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The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.
The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.
 Arlen Specter

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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It is with unwelcome frequency that I find myself the deciding vote.
 Arlen Specter
When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.
 Arlen Specter
To put more American personnel in harm's way without a realistic chance for success is something I'm not in favor of. And a realistic chance for success depends upon having the Iraqis with the will and the ability to fulfill their share of the bargain, and so far they have not.
 Arlen Specter
I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.
 Arlen Specter
When the president acts in absence of a congressional grant of authority, he can rely only upon his own independent powers. When the president takes measures incompatible with the express or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb.
 Arlen Specter