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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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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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.

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This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

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He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.

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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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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

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Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.

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

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