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" Tell me what is right and I will fight for it. "

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" Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. "

" The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation. "

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" My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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