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On the question of liberty, as a principle, we are not what we have been.

The aim of moral discipline is to purify the heart from the rust of passion and resentment, till, like a clear mirror, it reflects the light of God.

This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.

Poverty and ignorance are the parents of intemperance, and that vice will never be suppressed until the burdens of life are equally shared by all.

The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist.

In place of the suspicious watchfulness and the more or less open warfare which characterizes the ordinary types of management, there is universally friendly cooperation between the management and the men.

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

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

We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts.

The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural.

Our first object, then, should be to prevent a breach; our second, to secure that, if it does occur, our friendship should seem to have died a natural rather than a violent death.

Great evils are in some cases only to be met by resistance; they cannot be wept down, but must be battled down.

The enormous expense of governments has provoked people to think, by making them feel; and when once the veil begins to rend, it admits not of repair.

Words had to change their ordinary meaning and to take that which was now given them.

The position of the Negro today in America is the tragic but inevitable consequence of centuries of unequal treatment.

Accordingly a function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute.