“If we dig deep in our history and doctrine, we know we are not descended from fearful men.”
George Clooney
“It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of constitutional history. . . . The establishment clause has been expressly freighted with Jefferson's misleading metaphor for nearly forty years. . . . There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the framers intended to build a wall of separation [between church and state]. . . . The recent court decisions are in no way based on either the language or the intent of the framers.”
William H. Rehnquist
“Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor; and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.”
Robert A. Heinlein
“If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines get inside a man's reason and betray him against himself. Civilized men have done their fiercest fighting for doctrines.”
William Graham Sumner
“But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: / That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.”
Bible
“Men may believe what they cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrines or beliefs.”
William Orville Douglas
“The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction”
Thomas Henry Huxley
