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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.
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Our mission is not punishment, but the rectification of wrong.
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The Constitution expresses more than the conviction of the people that democratic processes must be preserved at all costs.
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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.
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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.
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Reader, it is not to awaken sympathy for myself that I am telling you truthfully what I suffered in slavery.
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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
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The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.
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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.
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The evil cannot be cured or remedied by silence as to its existence.
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Freedom can never yield its fullness of blessings so long as the law or its administration places the smallest obstacle in the pathway of any virtuous citizen.
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Bad local government is certainly a great evil, which ought to be prevented; but to violate the freedom and sanctities of the suffrage is more than an evil.
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Next in importance to the maintenance of the Constitution and the Union is the duty of preserving the Government free from the taint or even the suspicion of corruption.
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In short, we ought to do justice in a kindly spirit to all nations and require justice from them in return.
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Our diplomacy should be direct and frank, neither seeking to obtain more nor accepting less than is our due.
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After becoming citizens they are entitled, under the Constitution and laws, to be placed on a perfect equality with native-born citizens, and in this character they should ever be kindly recognized.
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The burdens of government should as far as practicable be distributed justly and equally among all classes of our population.
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One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
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By the theory of our Government majorities rule, but this right is not an arbitrary or unlimited one.
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The right to dissent peaceably, within the guardrails of our Republic, is perhaps our nation's greatest strength.
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If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information, and benevolence.