"A man's rootage is more important than his leafage."
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"I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it."
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"Our civilization cannot survive materially unless it is redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the Spirit of Christ, and being made free and happy by practices which spring out of that spirit. Only thus can discontent be driven out and all shadows lifted from the road ahead."
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"The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves."
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"It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts."
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"Government is not a warfare of interests."
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"A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file."
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"What is at the heart of all national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about to close upon our dearest rights and possessions."
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"When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves."
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"A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man."
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"God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden is all but intolerable, and the things that I have to do are just as much as the human spirit can carry."
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"The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name.... We must be impartial in thought as well as in actiona nationthat neither sits in judgment upon others nor is disturbed in her own counsels and which keeps herself fit and free to do what is honest and disinterested and truly serviceable for the peace of the world."
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"You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win."
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"The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved."
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"Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government."
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"The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life."
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"A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes."
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"I am sorry for those that disagree with me because I know that they are wrong."
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"I lived a dream life (almost too exclusively, perhaps) when I was a lad and even now my thought goes back for refreshment to thosedays when all the world seemed to be a place of heroic adventure in which one's heart must keep its own counsel."
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"Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control."
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