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Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

Nay, ’tis woman’s strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

Only the BLACK WOMAN can say “when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.”

My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

The oath taken in the presence of the people becomes a mutual covenant.

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

The Constitution defines the functions and powers of the executive as clearly as those of either of the other two departments of the Government, and he must answer for the just exercise of the discretion it permits and the performance of the duties it imposes.

It decrees that we, the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve.

Our answer is this: a denial of constitutionally protected rights demands judicial protection; our oath and our office require no less of us.

Great events are usually preceded by apparently small things.

Hence a sound and comprehensive policy should embrace not less the distant future than the urgent present.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

This close, intimate, personal cooperation between the management and the men is of the essence of modern scientific or task management.

With foresight, and a willingness on the part of our people to face up to the vast responsibility which history has clearly placed upon our country, the difficulties I have outlined can and will be overcome.

The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.

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

National honor is national property of the highest value.

If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported.

ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country

A good despotism is an altogether false ideal, which practically (except as a means to some temporary purpose) becomes the most senseless and dangerous of chimeras.

One of the benefits of freedom is that under it the ruler can not pass by the people's minds, and amend their affairs for them without amending them.

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

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