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The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union.

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As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

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We must believe the things We teach our children

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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.

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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.

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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 can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

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The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

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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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Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.

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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

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It has become a people's war, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune, are involved inits sweeping processes of change and settlement.

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

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The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved.

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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.

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I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train.... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts its ground too often. I like a platform that stays put.

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We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves.

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Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart, and that heart throbs with all sorts of intense sympathies... We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations upon which peace can be rebuilt.

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