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It has always seemed to me, during many years of active private practice, that the first and constant aim of the family physician should be to diffuse the sanitary knowledge which would enable parents to bring up healthy children.

To me there was no question so important as the emancipation of women from the dogmas of the past, political, religious, and social.

After all is said, if the young people have an earnest purpose in life it is easy to plan a method of living and to carry it out.

Lastly, and possibly most important, forests make this earth comfortable and beautiful. Next to the soil, they are the most useful and helpful of Nature's agencies.

That was all of tangible things; but in memories we were rich. We had pierced the veneer of outside things.

Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit.

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

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.

The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.

The principal object of management should be to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with the maximum prosperity for each employee.

There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.

We must show courage in a time of blessing by confronting problems instead of passing them on to future generations.

Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity and usefulness.

Our mission is not punishment, but the rectification of wrong.

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

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.

The optimist cannot fall back, cannot falter; for he knows his neighbor will be hindered by his failure to keep in line.

To grow in self-control, in patience, in equanimity, is to grow in strength and power; and you can only thus grow by focusing your consciousness upon a principle.

National honor is national property of the highest value.

I will give my all in your service thinking not of power, but of possibilities.

We will lead not merely by the example of our power but by the power of our example.

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

The mountains are calling and I must go, and I will work on while I can, studying incessantly.

Remember, then, that I, at least, have warned you, that the happiness of your life, and its power, and its part and rank in earth or in heaven, depend on the way you pass your days now.

Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end.