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"Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth."
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"The leaves of hopes which have destined words in the body of the thought have settled to the ground. This is the world."
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"To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence."
"We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become."
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"I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life."
"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."
"The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it rests with the Supreme Court to decide what they have really thought."
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"Indeed, it is a sign of marked political weakness in anycommonwealth if the people tend to be carried away by mere oratory, if theytend to value words in and for themselves, as divorced from the deeds for whichthey are supposed to stand. The phrase-maker, the phrase-monger, the readytalker, however great his power, whose speech does not make for courage,sobriety, and right understanding, is simply a noxious element in the bodypolitic, and it speaks ill for the public if he has influence over them. To admirethe gift of oratory without regard to the moral quality behind the gift is to dowrong to the republic."
"The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books."
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public."
"Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt."
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