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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.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil.

I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

The grandest of these ideals is an unfolding American promise that everyone belongs, that everyone deserves a chance, that no insignificant person was ever born.

Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian.

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

With the first word I used intelligently, I learned to live, to think, to hope.

Each halt in his progress has been but a pause before a mighty leap forward.

Life is a fair field, and the right will prosper if we stand by our guns.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

With the dropping of a little word from another's hand into mine, a slight flutter of the fingers, began the intelligence, the joy, the fullness of my life.

The man who doubts it, can never have watched the first gleams of tenderness dawning in the clear eyes of one who loves; sunrise itself is a lesser marvel.

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours

any person haled into court, who is too poor to hire a lawyer, cannot be assured a fair trial unless counsel is provided for him

It is a well-established principle of law that every wrong has a remedy.

This is a glorious region, and the air and life are intoxicating.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

Let all our people, leaving behind them the battlefields of dead issues, move forward and in their strength of liberty and the restored Union win the grander victories of peace.

We may hasten or we may retard, but we can not prevent, the final reconciliation.