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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.

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The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

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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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The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.

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... so far as religion is concerned, argument is adjourned.

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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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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

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The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.

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They lived long that have lived well.

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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

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You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

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A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.

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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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Liberty is its own reward.

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