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"May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised."
"Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise."
"Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life."
"If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely RIGHT."
"Only peace between equals can last."
"A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible."
"High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do."
"You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence, my admiration for you, you have increased in one evening as I should have thought only a lifetime of intimate, loving association could have increased them. You are more wonderful and lovely in my eyes than you ever were before; and my pride and joy and gratitude that you should love me with such a perfect love are beyond all expression, except in some great poem which I cannot write."
"Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever."
"When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty."
"Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams."
"There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with."
"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country."
"There is such a thing as man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right."
"The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself."
"America is the only idealistic nation in the world."
"Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty."
"Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them."
"The fewer the desires, the more peace."
"We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves."