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paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell

The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.

The evil cannot be cured or remedied by silence as to its existence.

Bad local government is certainly a great evil, which ought to be prevented; but to violate the freedom and sanctities of the suffrage is more than an evil.

Freedom can never yield its fullness of blessings so long as the law or its administration places the smallest obstacle in the pathway of any virtuous citizen.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

The observed worker should be made to realize the purpose and importance of the measurement.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority, still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.

Decency, security, and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.

If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

The confirmed criminal is as much entitled to redress as his most virtuous fellow citizen; no record of crime, however long, makes one an outlaw.