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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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