"The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible."
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"The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile."
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"When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing."
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"The seed of revolution is repression."
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"I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth."
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"Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow."
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"No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government."
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"You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it."
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"We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead."
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"The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty."
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"The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation."
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"Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him."
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"America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men."
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"Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt."
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"Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide."
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"It is imperative that we should not only master them, but also act upon them, and act very definitely."
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"I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind."
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"Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics."
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"The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it."
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"Today, supremely, it behooves us to remember that a nation shall be saved by the power that sleeps in its own bosom; or by none; shall be renewed in hope, in confidence, in strength by waters welling up from its own sweet, perennial springs. Not from above; not by patronage of its aristocrats. The flower does not bear the root, but the root the flower."
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