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"No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people."
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"The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth."
"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
"The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence."
"Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach."
"The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples."
"Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience."
"The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business."
"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."
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