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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. "

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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. "

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

" Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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