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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.

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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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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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America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

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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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The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known.

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Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

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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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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.

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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 nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

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It is imperative that we should not only master them, but also act upon them, and act very definitely.

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The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.

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Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.

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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.

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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.

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Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. The mischief of it is that when they swell, they do not swell enough to burst.

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We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

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The competent leader of men cares little for the niceties of other peoples' characters: he cares much--everything--for the exterior uses to which they may be put.... These are men to be moved. How should he move them? He supplies the power; others simply the materials on which that power operates.

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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. . . . No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.

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