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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.
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.
I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
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.
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