You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.