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" Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. "

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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. "

" A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. "

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" It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. "

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

" If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing. "

" A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. "

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

" I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. "

" We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study. "

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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. "