"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
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"We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study."
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"Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign."
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"The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender."
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"You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality."
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"War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you."
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"We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action"
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"Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity."
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"The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities."
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"Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it."
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"My best training came from my father."
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"Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people."
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"A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life."
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"All things come to him who waits"
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"Tell me what is right and I will fight for it."
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"The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries."
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"If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing."
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"We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting."
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"Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others."
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"I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen."
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