Liberty is its own reward.
No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.
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.
We are expected to put the utmost energy, of every power that we have, into the service of our fellow men, never sparing ourselves, not condescending to think of what is going to happen to ourselves, but ready, if need be, to go to the utter length of self-sacrifice.
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.
There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.
The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air.
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.
When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.
The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.
The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.
My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men may be supposed to have started out with in the old days of the oracles, who communed with the intimations of divinity.
I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.
Whate'er my doom; It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me The boon of resignation.
Have you thought of the sufferings of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Armenians after they suffered; now set your strength so that they shall never suffer again.
Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.
A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
...to make the world safe for democracy.
If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.
Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.
Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.
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