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Our forces begin to fail us; let us call them in and concentrate them in and for ourselves.

Now military governments, established for an indefinite period, would have offered no security for the early suppression of discontent, would have divided the people into the vanquishers and the vanquished, and would have envenomed hatred rather than have restored affection.

For the fourth time the officer elected by the people and ordained by the Constitution to fill a vacancy so created is called to assume the Executive chair.

I shall never be persuaded that marriage has a charm to raise love out of nothing, much less out of dislike

The Revolution was made to preserve our ancient indisputable laws and liberties, and that ancient constitution of government which is our only security for law and liberty.

The robbers of time are the past and the future.

Theirs is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part. It could go on and on and on, or someone must write the end to it.

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life.

For the first time in our history the person elected to the Vice-Presidency of the United States, by the happening of a contingency provided for in the Constitution, has had devolved upon him the Presidential office.

Deep-rooted Customs, though wrong, are not easily altered; but it is the Duty of every one to be firm in that which they certainly know is right for them.

Tell over next all those you have known, one after the other: think how one buried his fellow, then lay dead himself, to be buried by a third.

The aim of moral discipline is to purify the heart from the rust of passion and resentment, till, like a clear mirror, it reflects the light of God.

Let us then, here and now, recognize this force and resolve to make the most of it—not the boys less, but the girls more.

A race cannot be purified from without.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

As the racial distinction of humanity lies in its social relation, so we find the distinctive gains and losses of humanity to lie also in its social relation. We are more affected by our relation to each other than by our physical environment.

The inevitable trend of human life is toward higher civilization.

The progress of society rests upon the increasing collectivity of human labor.

An actor, in order to earn approval, is not bound to perform the play from beginning to end; let him only satisfy the audience in whatever act he appears.

There is no menial work in the daily living rightly carried out; that which the last century wrongly permitted is made needless by the machinery of to-day.

Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.