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Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.


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JAN LARUE This is an extraordinary and blatant display of judicial activism.
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BOYDEN GRAY Justice Rehnquist went to the Supreme Court in 1972, at a time of ascendant judicial activism.
C. BOYDEN GRAY Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.
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HERMAN CAIN I believe in traditional marriage.
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EDWIN MEESE Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.
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GIJS DE VRIES I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist...
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DAN SAVAGE Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted.
BARACK OBAMA The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have...
JIM BUNNING If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exis...
JAMES DOBSON We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Eugenics, as discussed, evidently means the control of some men
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DICK GEPHARDT [The church believes abortion is a violation of God's law and takes the] biblical view of marriage, ...
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WOODY ALLEN The need for control always comes from someone that has lost it.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-impor...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families al...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.
ERNEST BEVIN The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine lik...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expect...
ERNEST RUTHERFORD All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first panacea for a misguided nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
ERNEST BEVIN When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Re...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned ab...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it all up --but make it up so trul...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY