Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
The fewer the desires, the more peace.
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their indepdence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery...and the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and the sympathy of nations would begin to run for the North, not for the South.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely RIGHT.
The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of mechanics; it must develop. All that progressives ask or desire is permission-in an era when 'development,' 'evolution,' is the scientific word-to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine.
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