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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.

It is an evil omen of the times that men have undertaken to calculate the mere material value of the Union.

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.

Under our system there is a remedy for all mere political evils in the sound sense and sober judgment of the people.

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

Genius is free to announce its inventions and discoveries, and the hand is free to accomplish whatever the head conceives not incompatible with the rights of a fellow-being.

Melancholy is the condition of that people whose government can be sustained only by a system which periodically transfers large amounts from the labor of the many to the coffers of the few.

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.

The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin.

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.

The friend, however, took her in, and the friend's husband was obliged to sleep upon a bench in the park every night for a week, which he did uncomplainingly if not cheerfully.

The most serious effect upon the poor comes when dependence upon the charitable society is substituted for the natural outgoing of human love and sympathy, which, happily, we all possess in some degree.

Huxley declares that the sense of uselessness is the severest shock which the human system can sustain, and that if persistently sustained, it results in atrophy of function.

Our young people feel nervously the need of putting theory into action, and respond quickly to the Settlement form of activity.

She is besotted with innocent little ambitions, and does not understand this apparent waste of herself, this elaborate preparation, if no work is provided for her.

Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.

angry people are not always wise