Human Dignity and Bioethics

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Notes
1
The Queen, directed by Stephen Frears, Miramax Films, Pathé Productions, and
Granada, 2006.
2
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, “Manners,” in
The Portable Thomas Jefferson, ed. Merrill D. Peterson (New York: Viking Penguin,
1975), p. 215.
3
Thomas Jefferson, “To Roger C. Weightman,” June 24, 1826, in The Portable
Thomas Jefferson, p. 585.
4
See, for example, Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom (New York:
Penguin, 2003 [1855]), chapter 17, “The Last Flogging.” Douglass is quoting Lord
Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812-1818), Canto 2, Stanza 76.
5
John Locke, The Second Treatise of Government, in Two Treatises of Government,
ed. Peter Laslett (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), chapter VI, “Of
Paternal Power,” paragraph 55, p. 304.
6
Abraham Lincoln, “My Idea of Democracy,” in The Political Thought of Abraham
Lincoln, ed. Richard N. Current (New York: Macmillan, 1967), p. 327.
7
Abraham Lincoln, “Second Annual Message to Congress, 1862” in The Political
Thought of Abraham Lincoln, p. 234.
8
See the transcript of the Council’s discussion on Friday, February 6, 2007, online
at www.bioethics.gov/transcripts/feb07/session6.html.
9
Winston S. Churchill, “War Speech,” September 3, 1939, House of Commons,
in Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches 1897-1963, ed. Robert
Rhodes James (New York: Chelsea House, 1974) vol. 6; available online at www.
winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=878.
10
Winston S. Churchill, “Sinews of Peace,” March 5, 1946, Fulton, Missouri, in
Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches 1897-1963, vol. 7; available online at
www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=429.