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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Descended from rebels

  • J. Robert Oppenheimer

    No barriers to inquiry

  • Charles F. Wennerstrum

    Judge rips injustice at Nuremberg

  • Nebraska Constitution

    Unalienable right to bear arms

  • Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137

    Repugnant to the Constitution

  • United States Bill of Rights

    Shall not be infringed

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

“There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.” — George Jacob Holyoake