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If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

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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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Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of mechanics; it must develop. All that progressives ask or desire is permission-in an era when 'development,' 'evolution,' is the scientific word-to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine.

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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

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Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.

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Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.

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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.

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I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship if they were deprived of their beer, for example.

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The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.

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Have you thought of the sufferings of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Armenians after they suffered; now set your strength so that they shall never suffer again.

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Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.

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The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

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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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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.

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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.

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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

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The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

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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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Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

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