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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

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The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

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It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum.

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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

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The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.

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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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His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it.

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No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.

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The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

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...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages... The Laws of Moses as well as the laws of Rome contributed suggestions and impulse to the men and institutions which were to prepare the modern world; and if we could have but eyes to see... we should readily discover how very much besides religion we owe to the Jew.

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Jefferson's Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.

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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.

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God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden is all but intolerable, and the things that I have to do are just as much as the human spirit can carry.

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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

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America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

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Reality is what I see, not what you see.

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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

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[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.

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The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air.

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