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" 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. "

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" You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. "

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

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

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

" There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. "

" 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. "

" One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. "

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

" He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. "