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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.
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.
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
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.
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.