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If Freud had worn a kilt in the prescribed Highland manner he might have had a very different attitude to genitals.
Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are.
There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.
This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts
...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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.
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.
We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.
Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.
To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.
The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.
The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.
There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction
Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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.
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.
Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.
America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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.
Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!
By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.