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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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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.

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There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

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And while you bring all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you - bringing what is best of their spirit, but not looking over your shoulders and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave behind in them.

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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 is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.

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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

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"Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

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There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

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One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.

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All things come to him who waits

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The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards of justice and of right dealing.... By justice the lawyer generally means the prompt, fair, and open application of impartial rules; but we call ours a Christian civilization, and a Christian conception of justice must be much higher. It must include sympathy and helpfulness and a willingness to forego self-interest in order to promote the welfare, happiness, and contentment of others and of the community as a whole.

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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

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There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.

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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

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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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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

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

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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

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