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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.

Now military governments, established for an indefinite period, would have offered no security for the early suppression of discontent, would have divided the people into the vanquishers and the vanquished, and would have envenomed hatred rather than have restored affection.

A race cannot be purified from without.

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.

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

As the racial distinction of humanity lies in its social relation, so we find the distinctive gains and losses of humanity to lie also in its social relation. We are more affected by our relation to each other than by our physical environment.

The progress of society rests upon the increasing collectivity of human labor.

The inevitable trend of human life is toward higher civilization.

For the fourth time the officer elected by the people and ordained by the Constitution to fill a vacancy so created is called to assume the Executive chair.

I shall never be persuaded that marriage has a charm to raise love out of nothing, much less out of dislike

The Revolution was made to preserve our ancient indisputable laws and liberties, and that ancient constitution of government which is our only security for law and liberty.

There is no menial work in the daily living rightly carried out; that which the last century wrongly permitted is made needless by the machinery of to-day.

Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.

The robbers of time are the past and the future.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Theirs is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part. It could go on and on and on, or someone must write the end to it.

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life.

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

For the first time in our history the person elected to the Vice-Presidency of the United States, by the happening of a contingency provided for in the Constitution, has had devolved upon him the Presidential office.

Deep-rooted Customs, though wrong, are not easily altered; but it is the Duty of every one to be firm in that which they certainly know is right for them.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

Tell over next all those you have known, one after the other: think how one buried his fellow, then lay dead himself, to be buried by a third.

An actor, in order to earn approval, is not bound to perform the play from beginning to end; let him only satisfy the audience in whatever act he appears.