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Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

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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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I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.

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The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

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

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

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If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.

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There is such a thing as man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

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America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom - is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

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The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.

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My dream is that as the years go by and the world knows more and more of America, itwill turn to America for those moral inspirations that lie at the basis of all freedomthat America will come into the full light of the day when all shall know that she puts human rights above all other rights, and that her flag is the flag not only of America but of humanity.

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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.

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We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

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

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No man can be just who is not free.

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There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.

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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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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.

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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

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