"Whate'er my doom; It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me The boon of resignation."
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"A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation."
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"The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached."
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"I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will."
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"And when they [American soldiers] came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion. ... Joining hands with these, the men of America gave that greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit."
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"I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles."
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"We grow through our dreams. All great men and women are dreamers. Some, however, allow their dreams to die. You should nurse your dreams and protect them through bad times and tough times to the sunshine and light which always come."
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"I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win."
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"We never found a real model (for our vision)."
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"... so far as religion is concerned, argument is adjourned."
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"It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their indepdence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery...and the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and the sympathy of nations would begin to run for the North, not for the South."
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"America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses."
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"I am all kinds of a democrat, so far as I can discover but the root of the whole business is this, that I believe in the patriotism and energy and initiative of the average man."
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"Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them."
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"Not all change is progress."
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"Reality is what I see, not what you see."
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"We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it."
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"Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken."
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"One cannot pay the price of self-respect."
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"Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional"
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