Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.
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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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In the Lords prayer, the first petition is for daily bread; no one can worship God, or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail.
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Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the Field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere -- so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive -- that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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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 p...
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There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest of a new freed...
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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.
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard--you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that 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.
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I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you
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No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.
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There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consists of the names of men who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements
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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.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.
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Anyone who is not a socialist at 16 has no heart, but anyone who still is at 32 has no mind.
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The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
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A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Never murder a man who is committing suicide
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