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We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to promulgate any values at all. If the state can espouse some value that we love, it can, with equal justice, espouse others we do not love.

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Richard Mitchell
Age: 73 †
Born: 1929
Born: April 26
Died: 2002
Died: December 27
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