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" The seed of revolution is repression. "

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" I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind. "

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

" If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing. "

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

" Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. "

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

" I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose. "

" 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. "

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

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" A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. "

" 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. "

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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. "

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

" By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative', one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary', one who won't go at all. "

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

" 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. "