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"There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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"We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost."

"Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table."

"It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped."

"It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea."

"The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy."
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