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"Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence."
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"I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization."
"Third, we could, while denouncing them both as illegal, have acquiesced in them both and thus remained neutral with both sides, although not agreeing with either as to the righteousness of their respective orders."
"Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness."
"Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy."
"I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse."
"Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world - as far I mean as we are now at liberty to do it."
"Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence."
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
"America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered."
"To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution."
"We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself."
"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."
"The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles."
"Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent."
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