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The fact that the liberty of the press may be abused by miscreant purveyors of scandal does not make any the less necessary the immunity of the press from previous restraint in dealing with offical misconduct.

That any living woman should prefer it to home and husband, to love and motherhood, throws a fierce light on what women must have suffered for lack of freedom before.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

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

Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.

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

The basic concept underlying the Eighth Amendment is nothing less than the dignity of man.

Our answer is this: a denial of constitutionally protected rights demands judicial protection; our oath and our office require no less of us.

To the extent that a citizen's right to vote is debased, he is that much less a citizen.

Baffled, discountenanced, subdued, discredited, as the cause of justice and humanity is, it will be only the dearer to me.

Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it call for the elimination of individual traits and peculiarities.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

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

An Administration would be unworthy of confidence at home or respect abroad should it cease to be influenced by the conviction that no apparent advantage can be purchased at a price so dear as that of national wrong or dishonor.

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.

Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

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.

Great nations like great men must keep their word.

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

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

Observe good faith and justice towards all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

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

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself.

The law, whether human or divine, is no respecter of persons; but the law is a respecter of reality.

Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.