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

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The seed of revolution is repression. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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