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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?

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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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God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden is all but intolerable, and the things that I have to do are just as much as the human spirit can carry.

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

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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

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If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down.

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Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people, and her example, her assistance, her encouragement, has thrilled two continents in this western world with all those fine impulses which have built up human liberty on sides of the water. She stands, therefore, as an example of independence, as an example of free institutions, and as an example of disinterested international action in the main tenets of justice.

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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.

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

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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

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We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.

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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

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Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.

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The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.

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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

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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.

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The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.

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We never found a real model (for our vision).

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Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?

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