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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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My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men may be supposed to have started out with in the old days of the oracles, who communed with the intimations of divinity.

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...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.

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No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.

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All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.

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Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.

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They lived long that have lived well.

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Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

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Government is not a warfare of interests.

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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

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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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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.

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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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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

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Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

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Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby.... I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation.

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In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.

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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.

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Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.

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...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.

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