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I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

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In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

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The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

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Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

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The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

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The seed of revolution is repression.

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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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You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

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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 only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

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There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

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Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.

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If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

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