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To accomplish anything excellent, the will must work for catholic and universal ends.

Work rather for those interests which the divinities honor and promote,--justice, love, freedom, knowledge, utility.

The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.

I know that peace does not come through wishing for it--that there is no substitute for days and even years of patient and prolonged diplomacy.

Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole.

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

Let us measure what we will do for others by what they will do for themselves.

Above all, he must guard and you must guard him against indolence. Make him a strenuous man. I had to force myself into being strenuous as you know--had always an inclination to be idle.

The length of man's life, which is endless to the brave and busy, is scorned by his ambitious thought.

It may consist with perpetual failure, and find exercise in the continued chase.

There is no cutting of the Gordian knots of life; each must be smilingly unravelled.

Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

Our Government has no power except that granted it by the people.

neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with the equal protection principle when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature -- equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities

To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.

he should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves the country best

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away.

Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.

Difficulties may intimidate the weak, but they act only as a wholesome stimulus to men of resolution and valour.

The road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will usually be the most successful.

The road to success may be steep to climb, and it puts to the proof the energies of him who would reach the summit.

Labour is not only a necessity and a duty, but a blessing: only the idler feels it to be a curse.

In the pursuit of even the highest branches of human inquiry, the commoner qualities are found the most useful

Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.