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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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 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.
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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.
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
...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.
But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts
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.
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 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.
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.
Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
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.
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.
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
The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.
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.
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.
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.
America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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 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.
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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.
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.
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.
The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.