What The Framers Chose

The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do.  They too had lived in dangerous days;  they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought.  They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty.  They chose liberty.
—    William O. Douglas
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2019	Lead To Action
2018	Listen And See
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2016	What Are You Thinking About?
2015	What The Framers Chose
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2013	Serve The World
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