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Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.

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When I think of the flag.... I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes of blood to vindicate those rights, and then, in the corner, a prediction of the blue serene into which every nation may swim which stands for these great things.

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The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.

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A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

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... so far as religion is concerned, argument is adjourned.

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I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.

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It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

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The right is more precious than peace.

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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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The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.

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All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

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America was born a Christian nation.

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That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.

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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

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

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There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.

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