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Here lies, in a "horizontal" position The "outside" case of Peter Pendulum, watch-maker. He departed this life "wound up" In hopes of being "taken in hand" by his Maker, And of being thoroughly "cleaned, repaired" and "set a-going" In the world to come.

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

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No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

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You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of allegiance to whom? Of allegiance to no one, unless it be God. Certainly not of allegiance to those who temporarily represent this great government. You have taken an oath of allegiance to a great ideal, to a great body of principles, to a great hope of the human race.

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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

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Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.

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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

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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 highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.

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They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.

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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

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Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.

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There is no indispensable man.

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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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No man ever saw the people of whom he forms a part. No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States. Its personnel extends through all the nations, and across the seas, and into every corner of the world in the persons of the representatives of the United States in foreign capitals and in foreign centres of commerce.

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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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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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I believe very profoundly in an over-ruling Providence, and I do not fear that any real plans can be thrown off the track. It maynot be intended that I shall be President--but that would not break my heart.

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