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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.


I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them. In this beneficent work sections and races should be forgotten and partisanship should be unknown.


Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.



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