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So get out there. Give it everything you’ve got—whether it’s your time, your talent, your prayers, or your treasure.

I’ve found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.

Never be discouraged. Never hold back. Give everything you’ve got.

This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.

At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction: that a nation exists to serve its citizens.

What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people.

If we work together, there is nothing we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve.

The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts.

For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

It decrees that we, the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve.

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

When the Government acts to take away the fundamental right of citizenship, the safeguards of the Constitution should be examined with special diligence.

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

Our constitutional system amply provides for the protection of minorities by means other than giving them majority control of state legislatures.

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

Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.

The economy of injustice is to furnish resources for the fund of corruption.

An armed disciplined body is, in its essence, dangerous to liberty; undisciplined, it is ruinous to society.

A man's life does not develop rightly without it, and what is called an 'improvident marriage' often appears to me a noble, righteous, and prudent act.

If an idea, I reasoned, were really a valuable one, there must be some way of realising it.

But with common sense, self-reliance, and attention to the work in hand, any woman can pursue the medical calling without risk.

To me there was no question so important as the emancipation of women from the dogmas of the past, political, religious, and social.

Poverty and ignorance are the parents of intemperance, and that vice will never be suppressed until the burdens of life are equally shared by all.

After all is said, if the young people have an earnest purpose in life it is easy to plan a method of living and to carry it out.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.