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You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.
We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.
Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.
The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet.
He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.
The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.
Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.
The growth of our nation and all its activities are in the hands of a few men.
I am sorry for those that disagree with me because I know that they are wrong.
Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.
We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.
The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.
One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.
It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism)
Death comes along like a gas bill one can't payand that's all one can sayabout it.
Whate'er my doom; It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me The boon of resignation.
His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it.
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.
While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.
Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.
The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.
When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.
America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.