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"Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence."
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"Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy."
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"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."
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"Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence."
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"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."
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"Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness."
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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."
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"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."
Happiness
"I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live."
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"Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty."
Happiness
"Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears."
Men
"Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy."
Government
"Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent."
Experience
"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."
Government
"We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself."
Argument
"If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you."
Life
"The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities."
Logic
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