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The Government can not successfully insure prosperity or fix prices by legislative fiat.

Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil.

Thus the Analytical Engine will possess a library of its own. Every set of cards once made will at any future time reproduce the calculations for which it was first arranged.

As the racial distinction of humanity lies in its social relation, so we find the distinctive gains and losses of humanity to lie also in its social relation. We are more affected by our relation to each other than by our physical environment.

The basic condition of human life is union; the organic social relation, the interchange of functional service, wherein the individual is most advantaged, not by his own exertions for his own goods, but by the exchange of his exertions with the exertions of others for goods produced by them together.

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

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.

At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction: that a nation exists to serve its citizens.

This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.

What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people.

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

Our constitutional system amply provides for the protection of minorities by means other than giving them majority control of state legislatures.

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

When the Government acts to take away the fundamental right of citizenship, the safeguards of the Constitution should be examined with special diligence.

The economy of injustice is to furnish resources for the fund of corruption.

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.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

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.

Every thought, every word is impressed upon it and carried out in amazing detail.

Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.

Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.

Such exclusion goes over 'the very brink of constitutional power' and falls into the ugly abyss of racism.

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history.

Good citizens may well claim the protection of good laws and the benign influence of good government, but a claim for office is what the people of a republic should never recognize.