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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.

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.

The suspension of one man's dividends is the suspension of another man's pay envelope.

The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together.

Resolution is an act of courage in single instances, and if it becomes a characteristic trait, it is a habit of the mind.

The fact that the liberty of the press may be abused by miscreant purveyors of scandal does not make any the less necessary the immunity of the press from previous restraint in dealing with offical misconduct.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

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.

Economic independence is a relative condition at best.

That any living woman should prefer it to home and husband, to love and motherhood, throws a fierce light on what women must have suffered for lack of freedom before.

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.

The inevitable trend of human life is toward higher civilization.

The progress of society rests upon the increasing collectivity of human labor.

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.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticise others.

An actor, in order to earn approval, is not bound to perform the play from beginning to end; let him only satisfy the audience in whatever act he appears.

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

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

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.

a real kindness is so far beyond all compliment, that it never appears more than when there is least of t'other mingled with it

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.