“Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.”

“For every moral principle, there’s an equal and opposite government program”

“Important principles may and must be inflexible.”

“Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values, therefore, value principles!”

“Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government.”

“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. ”