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America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

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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.

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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

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Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that 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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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

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He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.

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By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

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Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

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There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

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It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

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My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

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My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

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There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

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Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

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