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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The history of liberty is a history of resistance. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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