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A race cannot be purified from without.

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

The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoilt, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your career.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be

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

What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.

The spirit of personal independence in the women of to-day is sure proof that a change has come.

The inevitable trend of human life is toward higher civilization.

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

Your life will never be a straight path.

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

The study of conditions will prove an education in itself and a stimulus to invention.

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.

The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn.

Great events are usually preceded by apparently small things.

At any rate, we were on the move at last, and if dangers and difficulties lay ahead we could meet and overcome them.

One should always follow a denial with an affirmation.

The object of the game of life is to see clearly one’s good and to obliterate all mental pictures of evil.

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.

Adventures are to those to whom they are most unexpected

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

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

One of the chief virtues of a democracy, however, is that its defects are always visible and under democratic processes can be pointed out and corrected.

Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things.