"Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice."
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"But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free."
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"Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy."
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"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."
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"We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free."
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"The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right."
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"To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest."
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"America was born a Christian nation."
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"Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach."
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"Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name."
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"We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks."
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"Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide."
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""Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have."
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"...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself."
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"Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action."
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"I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession."
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"There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against."
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"The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat."
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"I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose."
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"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."
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