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"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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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."
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"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."
"The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples."
"The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business."
"Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon."
"In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents."
"What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority."
"It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most."
"The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race."
"Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men."
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