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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. "

" I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. "

" You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. "

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

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

" Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. "

" I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. "

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