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Surely the State has no right to cleanse public debate to the point where it is grammatically palatable to the most squeamish among us.

The constitutional right of free expression is powerful medicine in a society as diverse and populous as ours.

Everything kept in joyful rhythmic motion in the pulses of Nature's big heart.

The whole world seems richer now that I have found this plant in so noble a landscape.

Fears vanish as soon as one is fairly free in the wilderness.

Nowhere will you see the majestic operations of nature more clearly revealed beside the frailest, most gentle and peaceful things.

To the sane and free it will hardly seem necessary to cross the continent in search of wild beauty, however easy the way, for they find it in abundance wherever they chance to be.

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

The mountains are calling and I must go, and I will work on while I can, studying incessantly.

After listening to it in all kinds of winds, night and day, season after season, I think I could approximate to my position on the mountains by this pine-music alone.

Every feature became more rigidly alpine, without, however, producing any chilling effect; for going to the mountains is like going home.

Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's Presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear.

It is confidence in the men and women who administer the judicial system that is the true backbone of the rule of law.

The endorsement of that position by the majority of this Court can only lend credence to the most cynical appraisal of the work of judges throughout the land.

Liberty and law have marched hand in hand.

The most respectful deference is due to doubts originating in pure patriotism and sustained by venerated authority.

To admit that this picture has its shades is but to say that it is still the condition of men upon earth.

Remember, then, that I, at least, have warned you, that the happiness of your life, and its power, and its part and rank in earth or in heaven, depend on the way you pass your days now.

A night's sleep, the sovereign remedy for the smaller vexations of life, had no effect on it.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

At first I hoped that the cloud would pass away of itself; but it did not.

At this my heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down.

But the time came when I awakened from this as from a dream.

The end had ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be any interest in the means?

Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end.