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

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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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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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