"But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts"
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"It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum."
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"We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back."
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"I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship if they were deprived of their beer, for example."
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"Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at."
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"The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States."
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"There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains."
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"There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home."
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"A living thing is born."
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"We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man."
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"They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank."
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"The spirit of [William] Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is gone their spirits stalk the world, carrying inspiration everywhere that they go and reminding men of the lineage, the fine lineage, of those who have sought justice and right."
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"As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes."
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"What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction."
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"Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear."
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"It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization."
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"The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country."
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"If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it."
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"Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. The mischief of it is that when they swell, they do not swell enough to burst."
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"Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves."
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