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- ... the Hatter [said], tossing his head contemptuously. “I dare say you never even spoke to... More
- A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or... More
- A certain degree of miserey [sic] seems inseparable from a high degree of populousness. More
- A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable... More
- A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to... More
- A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at... More
- A good neighbor is a very desireable thing. More
- A government deriving its energy from the will of the society, and operating, by the reason of... More
- A government of laws, and not of men. More
- A great world leader is gone. Liberty loving people around the globe are sad tonight. We are... More
- A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted... More
- A knowledge of the Globe and its various inhabitants, however slight ... has a kindred effect... More
- A little group of wilful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered the great... More
- A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great... More
- A living thing is born. More
- A majority, held in restraint by constitutional checks, and limitations, and always changing... More
- A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. More
- A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes. More
- A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life’s... More
- A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square... More
- A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe for felicity.... More
- A nationally known advertising man wrote me the other day ... to suggest that we tell the truth,... More
- A nation’s domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards... More
- A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing... More
- A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A... More
- A poor widow, by the name of Baird, has a son in the Army that for some offence has been... More
- A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a... More
- A President must call on many persons—some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away,... More
- A President Roosevelt comes only once in a century. I believe God knew and does know of the need... More
- A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be... More
- A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than... More
- A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air. A conservative is a man with two... More
- A radical is one of whom people say “He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is... More
- A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. More
- A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten... More
- A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a... More
- A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system... More
- A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which... More
- A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well:... More
- A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen,... More
- A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained.... More
- A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at? More
- A universal and perpetual peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events which will... More
- Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The... More
- Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall... More
- Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism. Her earth is rich, yet the... More
- After all, the chief business of the American people is business. More
- After so many historical illustrations of the evil effects of abandoning the policy of protection... More
- After that came commencement day—that great day for which all other days were made. And it... More
- Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then... More
- Ah, Governor [Murphy, of New Jersey], don’t try to deceive me as to the sentiment of the dear... More
- All appointments hurt. Five friends are made cold or hostile for every appointment; no new... More
- All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and therefore, as a free man, I... More
- All is politics in this capital. More
- All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that... More
- All of us recognize the great benefits to our own nation and to the world of a strong and... More
- All surprisingly beautiful—stupendous, amazing, unequalled. More
- All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see... More
- All the experts here ... say “There will be no war.” They said the same thing all through... More
- All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn’t fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch,... More
- All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere... More
- All things here appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round: we rise in the morning that... More
- All who wish to hand down to their children that happy republican system bequeathed to them by... More
- Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation. More
- Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two... More
- Almost two months married.... A better wife I never hoped to have.... She bears with my... More
- Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to... More
- Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the... More
- Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the... More
- Although what I am now to say is to be, in form, a reprimand, it is not intended to add a pang to... More
- Always remember, others may hate you. Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And... More
- Always the heart and the soul of our country will be the heart and the soul of the common man;... More
- Am I in love? ... If in love, where’s the sweetheart? Is it the noble-hearted F___ or the... More
- Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present... More
- Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. More
- America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America. More
- America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all... More
- America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be... More
- America needed recovery, not revenge. The hate had to be drained and the healing begun. More
- America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which... More
- America’s present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution... More
- Among the interesting thing in camp are the boys. You recollect the boy in Captain McIlrath’s... More
- Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men,... More
- An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet... More
- An evident principle ... is the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their... More
- An exorbitant fee should never be claimed. More
- An inquiry about the attitude towards the release of so-called political prisoners. I should be... More
- And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white... More
- And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said... More
- And, once more let me tell you, it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. I am powerless... More
- Another danger is imminent: A contested result. And we have no such means for its decision as... More
- Another serious reverse. [Gen. Ambrose] Burnside’s repulse at Fredericksburg.... Now remains... More
- Anti-Nebraska, Know-Nothings, and general disgust with the powers that be, have carried this... More
- Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a... More
- Any officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer for a seat in... More
- Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill... More
- Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can... More
- Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let’s... More
- Arrive at New Orleans, a city of ships, steamers, flatboats, rafts, mud, fog, filth, stench, and... More
- Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present... More
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