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| Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now | | Uncategorized | |
| One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. | | Judgement | |
| One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived | | Uncategorized | |
| Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own | | Uncategorized | |
| Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. | | Politics | |
| Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign. | | Prosperity | |
| Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life. | | Uncategorized | |
| Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. | | Uncategorized | |
| Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken | | Politics | |
| Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for. | | Uncategorized | |
| That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic. | | Uncategorized | |
| The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. | | Uncategorized | |
| The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document: it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age | | Uncategorized | |
| The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people. | | Uncategorized | |
| The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. | | Democracy; Government | |
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| The history of liberty is the history of the limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. When we resist the concentration of power we are resisting the powers of death. Concentration of power precedes the destruction of human liberties. | | Uncategorized | |
| The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself | | America and Americans | |
| The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. | | Uncategorized | |
| The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. | | Uncategorized | |
