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The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts.

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

How I should love that plain-heartedness you speak of, if you would use it; nothing is civil but that amongst friends.

Love is a terrible word, and I should blush to death if anything but a letter accused me on't.

Chide me when I do anything that is not well, but then make haste to tell me that you have forgiven me, and that you are what I shall ever be, a faithful friend.

a real kindness is so far beyond all compliment, that it never appears more than when there is least of t'other mingled with it

If you love me you will; and if you do not, I shall never love myself.

One may be happy to a good degree, I think, in a faithful friend, a moderate fortune, and a retired life; further than this I know nothing to wish; but if there be anything beyond it, I wish it you.

All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse; not studied as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.

Presently, after this was at an end, my mother died, and I was left at liberty to mourn her loss awhile.

but to have the spleen, and to dream upon't, is a punishment I would not wish my greatest enemy

I find I want courage to marry where I do not like

It is not kind in you to desire an increase of my friendship; that is to doubt it is not as great already as it can be, than which you cannot do me a greater injury.

I shall never be persuaded that marriage has a charm to raise love out of nothing, much less out of dislike

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

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

This trial comes at a moment when man's power to achieve good or to inflict evil surpasses the brightest hopes and the sharpest fears of all ages.

as it must be the supreme purpose of all free men, so it must be the dedication of their leaders, to save humanity from preying upon itself

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex

in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

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

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

The basic concept underlying the Eighth Amendment is nothing less than the dignity of man.

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