76
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.
The complete collection
The quote database
Every quote we hold, 1549 of them from 213 people across 387 works. Filter it, sort it, and follow any citation back to the source.
1529 checked at source
Filter the collection
Category
Feeling
Attribution
77
America has never been united by blood or birth or soil.
78
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.
79
Observe good faith and justice towards all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
80
Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men.
81
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself.
82
The law, whether human or divine, is no respecter of persons; but the law is a respecter of reality.
Gerald Fordverified·Remarks on Signing a Proclamation Granting Pardon to Richard Nixon·September 8, 1974
83
Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.
84
Our mission is not punishment, but the rectification of wrong.
85
Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen, and the contempt of our people for economy and frugality in their personal affairs deplorably saps the strength and sturdiness of our national character.
86
Government has a right to survive and powers conferred upon it are not necessarily set at naught by the express prohibitions of the Bill of Rights.
87
The Constitution expresses more than the conviction of the people that democratic processes must be preserved at all costs.
88
The guaranties of civil liberty are but guaranties of freedom of the human mind and spirit and of reasonable freedom and opportunity to express them.
89
Reader, it is not to awaken sympathy for myself that I am telling you truthfully what I suffered in slavery.
90
Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.
91
I would ten thousand times rather that my children should be the half-starved paupers of Ireland than to be the most pampered among the slaves of America
92
depriving individuals of the right to choose for themselves how to conduct their intimate relationships poses a far greater threat to the values most deeply rooted in our Nation's history than tolerance of nonconformity could ever do
93
Their life seems an immense disparity between effort and opportunity.
94
The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.
95
Our whole system of self-government will crumble either if officials elect what laws they will enforce or citizens elect what laws they will support.
96
If citizens do not like a law, their duty as honest men and women is to discourage its violation; their right is openly to work for its repeal.
97
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
98
paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell
99
Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.
100
The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.