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"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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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people."
People
"The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class."
Philosophy
"Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail."
Philosophy
"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."
Change
"The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters."
Being
"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
Man
"Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible."
Philosophy
"When all men think alike, no one thinks very much."
Man
"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."
Nature
"A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state."
Life
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