It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not to their servants in office—any other theory is incompatible with the foundation principles of our government.

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Comparison is the thief of joy.

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Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

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The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

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Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.

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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

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Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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