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

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" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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" You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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