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When the Government acts to take away the fundamental right of citizenship, the safeguards of the Constitution should be examined with special diligence.
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The economy of injustice is to furnish resources for the fund of corruption.
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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.
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The breakfast was eaten in silence, the women humbled with a sense of their helplessness, and the men gratified with a sense of their power.
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The most violent element in society is ignorance.
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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.
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Yet it is only intelligence and sympathy that can bring us closer to the source of human suffering, and teach us the ultimate way out of it.
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Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense.
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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.
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To state the problem is to recall the truth that no single principle can answer all of life's complexities.
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Such exclusion goes over 'the very brink of constitutional power' and falls into the ugly abyss of racism.
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Government is competent when all who compose it work as trustees for the whole people.
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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.
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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.
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The plea for this outrage was then, as it is always, the tyrant's plea of necessity.
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Slavery does away with fathers, as it does away with families.
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Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.
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The moral which I gained from the dialogue was the power of truth over the conscience of even a slaveholder.
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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.
George C. Marshallverified·Remarks at Harvard University on the European Recovery Program·June 5, 1947
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Great nations like great men must keep their word.
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America has never been united by blood or birth or soil.
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The grandest of these ideals is an unfolding American promise that everyone belongs, that everyone deserves a chance, that no insignificant person was ever born.
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Observe good faith and justice towards all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
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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.
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I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself.