Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

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You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

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If you have never failed you have never lived.

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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

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You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

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