"Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting."
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"War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely."
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"We grow by our dreams."
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"The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise."
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"If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now."
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"We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic."
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"It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America."
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"Have you thought of the sufferings of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Armenians after they suffered; now set your strength so that they shall never suffer again."
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"No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation."
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"Liberty is its own reward."
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"When I think of the flag.... I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes of blood to vindicate those rights, and then, in the corner, a prediction of the blue serene into which every nation may swim which stands for these great things."
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"If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it."
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"Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place."
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"The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air."
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"My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together."
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"Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country."
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"They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,--and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts."
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"I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered."
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"Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent processes. We may not be able to set up permanent decisions."
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"No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property."
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