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

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" 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. "

" Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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 history of liberty is a history of resistance. "

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