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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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Liberty is its own reward.

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The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.

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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 firmly believe in Divine Providence. Without belief in Providence I think I should go crazy. Without God the world would be a maze without a clue.

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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.

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I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.

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Never for a moment have I had one doubt about my religious beliefs. There are people who believe only so far as they can understand--that seems to me presumptuous and sets their understanding as the standard of the universe.

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

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Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.

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...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.

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If Freud had worn a kilt in the prescribed Highland manner he might have had a very different attitude to genitals.

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In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none.

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Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.

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Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

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Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.

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Here lies, in a "horizontal" position The "outside" case of Peter Pendulum, watch-maker. He departed this life "wound up" In hopes of being "taken in hand" by his Maker, And of being thoroughly "cleaned, repaired" and "set a-going" In the world to come.

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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

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At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.

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Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

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