"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."
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"In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government."
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"The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort."
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"The allied nations with the fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations of a Jewish Commonwealth."
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"I am a most unhappy man. I accidentally ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. Our government is no longer based on the freedom of opinion, nor on the conviction and the majority decision, it is now a government which is subjected to the conviction and the compulsion of a small group of dominant men."
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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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"A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up."
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"Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God."
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"The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others."
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"Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?"
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"I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'"
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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 man may be defeated by his own secondary successes."
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"Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness."
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"Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world."
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"Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart, and that heart throbs with all sorts of intense sympathies... We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations upon which peace can be rebuilt."
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"It must be a peace without victory... Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last."
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"I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being."
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"Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby.... I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation."
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"We are expected to put the utmost energy, of every power that we have, into the service of our fellow men, never sparing ourselves, not condescending to think of what is going to happen to ourselves, but ready, if need be, to go to the utter length of self-sacrifice."
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