"What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations."
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"The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals."
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"The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential."
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"Men do not make laws. They do but discover them."
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"There is no substitute for a militant freedom."
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"It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow."
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"Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny."
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"We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free."
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"If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress."
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"July 4, 1776 was the historic day on which the representatives of three millions of people vocalized Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill, which gave notice to the world that they proposed to establish an independent nation on the theory that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
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"The chief business of the American people is business."
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"No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist."
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"Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance."
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"It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization, and the only difference between a disorganized country and one that has the advantage of a wise and sound government is fundamentally a question of organization."
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"We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. ... If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it."
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"If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion."
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"No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward a time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient than those of our Revolutionary ancestors."
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"The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes."
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"Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God."
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"Education should be the handmaid of citizenship."
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