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After becoming citizens they are entitled, under the Constitution and laws, to be placed on a perfect equality with native-born citizens, and in this character they should ever be kindly recognized.

In short, we ought to do justice in a kindly spirit to all nations and require justice from them in return.

Next in importance to the maintenance of the Constitution and the Union is the duty of preserving the Government free from the taint or even the suspicion of corruption.

Our diplomacy should be direct and frank, neither seeking to obtain more nor accepting less than is our due.

By the theory of our Government majorities rule, but this right is not an arbitrary or unlimited one.

Melancholy is the condition of that people whose government can be sustained only by a system which periodically transfers large amounts from the labor of the many to the coffers of the few.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

The burdens of government should as far as practicable be distributed justly and equally among all classes of our population.

The friend, however, took her in, and the friend's husband was obliged to sleep upon a bench in the park every night for a week, which he did uncomplainingly if not cheerfully.

The most serious effect upon the poor comes when dependence upon the charitable society is substituted for the natural outgoing of human love and sympathy, which, happily, we all possess in some degree.

The right to dissent peaceably, within the guardrails of our Republic, is perhaps our nation's greatest strength.

If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information, and benevolence.

Want of a common judge with authority, puts all men in a state of nature: force without right, upon a man's person, makes a state of war

Where-ever law ends, tyranny begins, if the law be transgressed to another's harm

It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.

Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

The constitutional right of free expression is powerful medicine in a society as diverse and populous as ours.

Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's Presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear.

It is confidence in the men and women who administer the judicial system that is the true backbone of the rule of law.

The endorsement of that position by the majority of this Court can only lend credence to the most cynical appraisal of the work of judges throughout the land.

Liberty and law have marched hand in hand.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural.

In regard to foreign nations, the groundwork of my policy will be justice on our part to all, submitting to injustice from none.

How mighty, as to the outward, is that Power by which they are borne down, and oppressed!