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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.

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I am all kinds of a democrat, so far as I can discover but the root of the whole business is this, that I believe in the patriotism and energy and initiative of the average man.

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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.

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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.

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Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes and dries up the wells of his humanity to be forever in search of doctrine. We need wholesome, experiencing natures, I dare affirm, much more than we need sound reasoning.

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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.

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Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

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There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

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Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.

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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.

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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.

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An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

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My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.

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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.

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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

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The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.

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