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

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

" 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 seed of revolution is repression. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. "

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

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

" The history of liberty is a history of resistance. "

" The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions. "

" 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. "

" I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something. "

" The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. "

" The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people. "

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

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" Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. "

" Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt. "