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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.

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Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of quiet groups of students.

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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

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Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

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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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There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

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I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.

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The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.

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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.

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Movies are like writing history with lightning.

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So far as the colleges go, the side-shows have swallowed up the circus, and we don't know what is going on in the main tent: and I don't want to continue as ringmaster under those conditions.

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Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused.

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As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

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My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

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"Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

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The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union.

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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.

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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

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