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" Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community - not from governmental restraints. "

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" One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class. "

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" The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night. "

" When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. "

" Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. "

" Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness. "

" Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. "

" America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. "

" A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity. "

" There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation. "

" Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate. "

" Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved. "

" I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries - the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care. "

" The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law. "

" If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end. "

" The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul. "

" No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. "

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" Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men. "

" All men are equal before fish. "

" Children are our most valuable natural resource. "

" Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family. "

" With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system. "

" Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful. "

" In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land. "

" No public man can be just a little crooked. "

" My earliest realization of the stir of national life was the torch parade in the Garfield campaign. On that occasion, I was not only allowed out that night, but I saw the lamps being filled and lighted. "

" Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. "

" Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world. "

" The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders. "

" About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends. "

" Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom. "