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The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.
A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.
High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves.
All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.
As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
To think that I, the son ofthe manse, should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people.
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
It is imperative that we should not only master them, but also act upon them, and act very definitely.
A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.
I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...
I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.
I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.
If Freud had worn a kilt in the prescribed Highland manner he might have had a very different attitude to genitals.
Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are.
Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.