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It is in periods like this that it behooves the people to be most watchful of those to whom they have intrusted power.

Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.

The busiest man needs no more hours of rest than the idler.

We have evidently tapped a level of new energy, masked until then by the fatigue-obstacle usually obeyed.

We live subject to arrest by degrees of fatigue which we have come only from habit to obey.

The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

the great thing in all education is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy

The spectacle of effort is what awakens and sustains our own effort.

With such aids and an honest purpose to do whatever is right, I hope to execute diligently, impartially, and for the best interests of the country the manifold duties devolved upon me.

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

Free labour has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

His duty is to administer the present Government as it came to his hands and to transmit it unimpaired by him to his successor.

Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.

The leading rule for a lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence.

Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends--those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work, who do care for the result.

Energy in the Executive is a leading character in the definition of good government.

There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored.

In administering the laws of Congress I shall keep steadily in view the limitations as well as the extent of the Executive power trusting thereby to discharge the functions of my office without transcending its authority.

The laws of the United States must be executed.

Let us then, here and now, recognize this force and resolve to make the most of it—not the boys less, but the girls more.

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.

Education, then, is the safest and richest investment possible to man.

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.”