Reagan continued: "Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide ..."
Past and Present of Wyandot County, Ohio: a record of settlement (1913): "At Pipetown was a considerable body of Delawares ... At this place Stewart stopped, but as the Indians were preparing for a great dance they paid but little attention to him ... Stewart took out his hymn book and began to sing."
Booker T. Washington stated: "Anyone can seek a job, but it requires a person of rare ability to create a job ... What we should do in our schools is to turn out fewer job seekers and more job creators ... At the bottom ... there must be for our race, as for all races ... economic prosperity, economic independence ... Political independence disappears without economic independence."
Santa Anna had previously told the U.S. Minister to Mexico, Joel R. Poinsett, 1824: "A hundred years to come my people will not be fit for liberty. They do not know what it is, unenlightened as they are ... A despotism is the proper government for them."
George Mason originally suggested the wording of the First Amendment be: "All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others."
