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The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
[ Honor ]
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There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consists of the names of men who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
[ Honor ]
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
[ Individuality ]
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
[ Christianity ]
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
[ Speech ]
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!
[ Victory ]
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All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.
[ Self Esteem ]
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I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.
[ Quotations ]
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Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
[ Procrastination ]
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
[ Democracy ]
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
[ Democracy ]
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
[ Democracy ]
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I believe in democracy, because it releases the energies of every human being.
[ Democracy ]
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America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.
[ Democracy ]
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
[ World ]
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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.
[ Responsibility ]
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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
[ Progress ]
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
[ Judgment ]
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Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
[ Freedom ]
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