A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
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At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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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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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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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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Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
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I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.
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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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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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I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.
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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.
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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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If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
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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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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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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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Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
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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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Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.
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Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
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So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.
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Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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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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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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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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The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.
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The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
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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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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
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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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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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