A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up by itself.
One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.
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