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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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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

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The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

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The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

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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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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

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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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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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I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

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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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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

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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 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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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

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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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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

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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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The seed of revolution is repression.

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America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

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Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

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