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

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" Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. "

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

" Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles. "

" Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt. "

" The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind. "

" In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. "

" There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. "

" If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. "

" The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people. "

" The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. "

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

" There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States. "

" The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them. "

" Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide. "

" America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us. "

" Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign. "

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" Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. "

" Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them. "

" 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. "

" Tell me what is right and I will fight for it. "

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

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

" Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling. "

" The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. "

" If you want to make enemies, try to change something. "

" Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. "

" The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation. "