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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.
We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.
Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.
Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.
Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
... so far as religion is concerned, argument is adjourned.
No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.
It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum.
I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.
I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy
Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.
Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you.
There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.
Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.
The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.
The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.
The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.
Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.