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Men of the best intentions and soundest views may differ in their construction of some parts of the Constitution, but there are others on which dispassionate reflection can leave no doubt.

Our Constitution does not contain the absurdity of giving power to make laws, and another power to resist them.

The laws of the United States must be executed.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

The American system rests on the assertion of the equal right of every man to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, to freedom of conscience, to the culture and exercise of all his faculties.

The Constitution to which life was thus imparted contains within itself ample resources for its own preservation.

The ancient republics absorbed the individual in the state--prescribed his religion and controlled his activity.

The powers of patronage and rule which would have been exercised, under the President, over a vast and populous and naturally wealthy region are greater than, unless under extreme necessity, I should be willing to intrust to any one man.

Let us then, here and now, recognize this force and resolve to make the most of it—not the boys less, but the girls more.

Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

Education, then, is the safest and richest investment possible to man.

Nay, ’tis woman’s strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class,—it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.

A race cannot be purified from without.

Only the BLACK WOMAN can say “when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.”

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.

No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family.

A State cannot so deem a class of persons a stranger to its laws.

Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion.

His capacity for work was prodigious, and when his own work happened to take less than his full time he characteristically found activity in serving a scientist or exercising an animal.

It is because it is so much easier to shirk in civilization that it is difficult to get a standard of what your average man can do.

There is no doubt that a blizzard has a bewildering and numbing effect upon the brain of any one exposed to it.

There were times when his optimism appeared forced and formal though I believe it was not really so: there were times when I have almost hated him for his infernal cheerfulness.

Hence the necessity that he should have been well trained in habits, who is to study, with any tolerable chance of profit, the principles of nobleness and justice and moral philosophy generally.