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

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You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.

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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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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

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Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.

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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.

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America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.

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The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.

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The soul of me is very selfish. I have gone my way after a fashion that made me the center of the plan. And you who are so individual, who are so independent a spirit, whose soul is also a kingdom, have been so loyal, so forgiving, so self-sacrificing in your willingness to live my life. Nothing but love cold have accomplished so wonderful a thing.

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I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

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The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

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Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

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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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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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If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

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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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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.

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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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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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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

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