Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it.
As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.
Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light...
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.
Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.
The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic party. It seeks to use it to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.
If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.
The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.
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.
Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.
Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
...to make the world safe for democracy.
One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
I lived a dream life (almost too exclusively, perhaps) when I was a lad and even now my thought goes back for refreshment to thosedays when all the world seemed to be a place of heroic adventure in which one's heart must keep its own counsel.
A living thing is born.
Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.
If Freud had worn a kilt in the prescribed Highland manner he might have had a very different attitude to genitals.
The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.
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