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Don’t be a blueprint. Be an original.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.