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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.
I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.
Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.
... so far as religion is concerned, argument is adjourned.
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum.
I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.
I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy
Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.
Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.
I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you.
I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.
The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.
Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.
Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.
No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.
If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely RIGHT.
This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own.