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" America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Tell me what is right and I will fight for it. "

" America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us. "

" He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. "

" I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. "

" Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. "

" 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. "

" So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus. "

" 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. "

" Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide. "

" There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States. "

" The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation. "

" 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 will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past. "

" As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur. "

" 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. "

" Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign. "

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" It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. "