The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand the anti-ObamaCare forces argue there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.

Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.

People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

I wasn't with Joseph but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

All provisions of federal state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.