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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past. "

" I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind. "

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

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

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

" If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it. "

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

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

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" There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. "

" The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. "