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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling. "