The fewer the desires, the more peace.
All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.
...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. 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 which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely RIGHT.
The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.
The world must be made safe for democracy.
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of mechanics; it must develop. All that progressives ask or desire is permission-in an era when 'development,' 'evolution,' is the scientific word-to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine.
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