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

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" I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic. "

" Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. "

" 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. "

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

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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. "

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

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

" Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country. "

" The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions. "

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

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