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Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

A living thing is born.

All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.

All things come to him who waits

A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.

A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.

A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.

America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom - is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

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

America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

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.

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.

America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness, which are derived from Holy Scripture. Ladies and gentlemen, I have a very simple thing to ask of you. I ask of every man and woman in this audience that, from this night on, they will realize that part of the destiny of America lies in their daily perusal of this great Book of revelations. (The Bible) That if they would see America free and pure they will make their own spirits free and pure by the baptism of Holy Scripture.

America was born a Christian nation.

And when they [American soldiers] came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion. ... Joining hands with these, the men of America gave that greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.

And while you bring all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you - bringing what is best of their spirit, but not looking over your shoulders and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave behind in them.

An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.

A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.

A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have

A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.

As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.

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

A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.

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.

At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.

Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.

Be militant! Be an organization that is going to do things! If you can find older men who will give you countenance and acceptableleadership, follow them; but if you cannot, organize separately and dispense with them. There are only two sorts of men to be associated with when something is to be done: Those are young men and men who never grow old.

Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.

Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.

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.

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

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.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.