They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,--and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.
We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.
Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.
If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.
Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.
All things come to him who waits
A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.
America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people, and her example, her assistance, her encouragement, has thrilled two continents in this western world with all those fine impulses which have built up human liberty on sides of the water. She stands, therefore, as an example of independence, as an example of free institutions, and as an example of disinterested international action in the main tenets of justice.
Let him [the President] once win the admiration and confidence of the country, and no other single force can withstand him, no combination of forces will easily overpower him.... If he rightly interpret the national thought and boldly insist upon it, he is irresistible; and the country never feels the zest of action so much as when the President is of such insight and caliber.
Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs.
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.
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...
Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it.
I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.
The treasury of America lies in those ambitions, those energies, that cannot be restricted to a special favored class. It depends upon the inventions of unknown men, upon the originations of unknown men, upon the ambitions of unknown men. Every country is renewed out of the ranks of the unknown, not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.
Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.
I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.
There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.
While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.
We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.
Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional
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