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To the extent that a citizen's right to vote is debased, he is that much less a citizen.

The basic concept underlying the Eighth Amendment is nothing less than the dignity of man.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it call for the elimination of individual traits and peculiarities.

Government is competent when all who compose it work as trustees for the whole people.

An Administration would be unworthy of confidence at home or respect abroad should it cease to be influenced by the conviction that no apparent advantage can be purchased at a price so dear as that of national wrong or dishonor.

Preeminently, the power of our advocacy reposes in our example; but no example, be it remembered, can be powerful for lasting good, whatever apparent advantages may be gained, which is not based upon eternal principles of right and justice.

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

It would be neither fitting nor efficacious for this Government to undertake to draw up unilaterally a program designed to place Europe on its feet economically. This is the business of the Europeans.

Great nations like great men must keep their word.

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil.

Observe good faith and justice towards all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

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.

Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men.

The law, whether human or divine, is no respecter of persons; but the law is a respecter of reality.

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.

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen, and the contempt of our people for economy and frugality in their personal affairs deplorably saps the strength and sturdiness of our national character.

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

Reader, it is not to awaken sympathy for myself that I am telling you truthfully what I suffered in slavery.

depriving individuals of the right to choose for themselves how to conduct their intimate relationships poses a far greater threat to the values most deeply rooted in our Nation's history than tolerance of nonconformity could ever do

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 worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.