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" I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world. "

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 history of liberty is a history of resistance. "

" Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" The seed of revolution is repression. "

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

" I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. "

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

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

" The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. "

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

" 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. "

" A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. "

" Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. "

" What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind. "

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

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

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