None Of Us Here In Washington Knows

Social And Cultural Change, However Desirable, Should Not Be Effected By The Engines Of National Power. Let Us, Through Persuasion And Education, Seek To Improve Institutions We Deem Defective. But Let Us, In Doing So, Respect The Orderly Processes Of The Law. Any Other Course Enthrones Tyrants And Dooms Freedom.

The Conservative Movement, To Which I Subscribe, Has As One Of Its Basic Tenets The Belief That Government Should Stay Out Of People’s Private Lives. Government Governs Best When It Governs Least – And Stays Out Of The Impossible Task Of Legislating Morality. But Legislating Someone’s Version Of Morality Is Exactly What We Do By Perpetuating Discrimination Against Gays.

The Big Thing Is To Make This Country - Quit Discriminating Against People Just Because They're Gay. You Don't Have To Agree With It, But They Have A Constitutional Right To Be Gay. They're American Citizens.

Equality, Rightly Understood As Our Founding Fathers Understood It, Leads To Liberty And To The Emancipation Of Creative Differences; Wrongly Understood, As It Has Been So Tragically In Our Time, It Leads First To Conformity And Then To Despotism.

One Way We Exercise Political Freedom Is To Vote For The Candidate Of Our Choice. Another Way Is To Use Our Money To Try To Persuade Other Voters To Make A Similar Choice - That Is, To Contribute To Our Candidate's Campaign. If Either Of These Freedoms Is Violated, The Consequences Are Very Grave Not Only For The Individual Voter And Contributor, But For The Society Whose Free Political Processes Depend On A Wide Distribution Of Political Power.