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

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" At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. "

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

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

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

" The seed of revolution is repression. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. "

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

" He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it. "

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

" America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "