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Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.

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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.

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While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.

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I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.

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The allied nations with the fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations of a Jewish Commonwealth.

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My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

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Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.

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The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

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An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.

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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

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The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.

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I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train.... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts its ground too often. I like a platform that stays put.

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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

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You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of allegiance to whom? Of allegiance to no one, unless it be God. Certainly not of allegiance to those who temporarily represent this great government. You have taken an oath of allegiance to a great ideal, to a great body of principles, to a great hope of the human race.

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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 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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One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.

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I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.

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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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