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It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.
The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.
America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.
The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.
High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves.
As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
To think that I, the son ofthe manse, should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people.
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
It is imperative that we should not only master them, but also act upon them, and act very definitely.
The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.
A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...
I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.
I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.