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To specialize any form of labor is a step up: to organize it is another step.

To teach, to rule, to make, to decorate, to distribute,—these are not sex-functions: they are race-functions.

What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.

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.

Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.

In brief, whatever you want, produce that something in yourself, and you will positively gravitate towards the corresponding conditions in the external world.

What you imagine, you will think, and what you think, you will become.

The fact is that old age is respectable just as long as it asserts itself, maintains its proper rights, and is not enslaved to any one.

he kept his mind at full stretch like a bow, and never gave in to old age by growing slack

So get out there. Give it everything you’ve got—whether it’s your time, your talent, your prayers, or your treasure.

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.

If we work together, there is nothing we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve.

The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts.

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

Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.

Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.

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

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

The Amendment must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.

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.

A man's life does not develop rightly without it, and what is called an 'improvident marriage' often appears to me a noble, righteous, and prudent act.

But with common sense, self-reliance, and attention to the work in hand, any woman can pursue the medical calling without risk.