“Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.”
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I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.
In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.