Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
America was established not to create wealth, but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
Property, as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
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