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“America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.”
“The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.”
“The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.”
“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.”
“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.”
“As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.”
“What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.”
“One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.”
“Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.”
“It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”
“Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.”
“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.”
“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.”
“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”
“The seed of revolution is repression.”
“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.”
“There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.”
“Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.”
“Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.”
“The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.”