"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong."
"It is equally clear that a government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the individual must be independent and free within his own sphere or cease to be an individual. The fundamental question was then, is now, and always will be through what adjustments, by what actions, these principles may be applied."
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Source: Freedom and its Obligations. Speech at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, May 30, 1924.
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