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paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell

The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.

The evil cannot be cured or remedied by silence as to its existence.

Bad local government is certainly a great evil, which ought to be prevented; but to violate the freedom and sanctities of the suffrage is more than an evil.

Freedom can never yield its fullness of blessings so long as the law or its administration places the smallest obstacle in the pathway of any virtuous citizen.

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.

Reverie is a loose dreaming into which a man falls; meditation is a strong, purposeful thinking into which a man rises.

After becoming citizens they are entitled, under the Constitution and laws, to be placed on a perfect equality with native-born citizens, and in this character they should ever be kindly recognized.

In short, we ought to do justice in a kindly spirit to all nations and require justice from them in return.

Next in importance to the maintenance of the Constitution and the Union is the duty of preserving the Government free from the taint or even the suspicion of corruption.

Our diplomacy should be direct and frank, neither seeking to obtain more nor accepting less than is our due.

By the theory of our Government majorities rule, but this right is not an arbitrary or unlimited one.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

The burdens of government should as far as practicable be distributed justly and equally among all classes of our population.

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires.

National honor is national property of the highest value.

If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported.

the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.

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

The right to dissent peaceably, within the guardrails of our Republic, is perhaps our nation's greatest strength.

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

Can authority be more amiable and respectable when it descends from accidents or institutions established in remote antiquity than when it springs fresh from the hearts and judgments of an honest and enlightened people?

If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information, and benevolence.

It is their power and majesty that is reflected, and only for their good, in every legitimate government, under whatever form it may appear.

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