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We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.

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"Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

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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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Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.

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We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.

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The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For... things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.

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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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There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

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A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.

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Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

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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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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 interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.

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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.

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You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of allegiance to whom? Of allegiance to no one, unless it be God. Certainly not of allegiance to those who temporarily represent this great government. You have taken an oath of allegiance to a great ideal, to a great body of principles, to a great hope of the human race.

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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.

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There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.

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