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The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known.

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Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people, and her example, her assistance, her encouragement, has thrilled two continents in this western world with all those fine impulses which have built up human liberty on sides of the water. She stands, therefore, as an example of independence, as an example of free institutions, and as an example of disinterested international action in the main tenets of justice.

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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

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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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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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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

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You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

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They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,--and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.

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By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

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Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.

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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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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

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We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction

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A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.

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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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To think that I, the son ofthe manse, should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people.

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The right is more precious than peace.

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It is imperative that we should not only master them, but also act upon them, and act very definitely.

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Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

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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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