I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

We should not take part in acting a lie any more than in telling a lie. Weshould not say that men are equal where they are not equal, nor proceed uponthe assumption that there is an equality where it does not exist; but we shouldstrive to bring about a measurable equality, at least to the extent of preventingthe inequality which is due to force or fraud.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

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