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Poverty and ignorance are the parents of intemperance, and that vice will never be suppressed until the burdens of life are equally shared by all.

The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist.

Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense.

The plea for this outrage was then, as it is always, the tyrant's plea of necessity.

Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

The moral which I gained from the dialogue was the power of truth over the conscience of even a slaveholder.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself.

Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.

Our mission is not punishment, but the rectification of wrong.

The Constitution expresses more than the conviction of the people that democratic processes must be preserved at all costs.

I would ten thousand times rather that my children should be the half-starved paupers of Ireland than to be the most pampered among the slaves of America

If citizens do not like a law, their duty as honest men and women is to discourage its violation; their right is openly to work for its repeal.

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press

It is a well-established principle of law that every wrong has a remedy.

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color.