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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people?

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in

There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored.

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 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.

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

Furthermore, Friendship seems to be the bond of Social Communities, and legislators seem to be more anxious to secure it than Justice even.

To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.

But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision I have finally been included in “We, the people.”

No political party can long pursue advantage at the expense of public honor or by rude and indecent methods without protest and fatal disaffection in its own body.

The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together.

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.

in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

The Amendment must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.

Yet it is only intelligence and sympathy that can bring us closer to the source of human suffering, and teach us the ultimate way out of it.

Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense.

Government is competent when all who compose it work as trustees for the whole people.

Preeminently, the power of our advocacy reposes in our example; but no example, be it remembered, can be powerful for lasting good, whatever apparent advantages may be gained, which is not based upon eternal principles of right and justice.

The moral which I gained from the dialogue was the power of truth over the conscience of even a slaveholder.

It would be neither fitting nor efficacious for this Government to undertake to draw up unilaterally a program designed to place Europe on its feet economically. This is the business of the Europeans.

The grandest of these ideals is an unfolding American promise that everyone belongs, that everyone deserves a chance, that no insignificant person was ever born.

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil.

Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men.

any person haled into court, who is too poor to hire a lawyer, cannot be assured a fair trial unless counsel is provided for him

It is a well-established principle of law that every wrong has a remedy.