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“Ideas control the world.”
“Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.”
“I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.”
“Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.”
“The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.”
“If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.”
“Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.”
“Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.”
“I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.”
“Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.”
“Suicide is not a remedy.”
“A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.”
“Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.”