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To make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one

Once awakened by the silver trump of knowledge, my spirit was roused to eternal wakefulness.

The plea for this outrage was then, as it is always, the tyrant's plea of necessity.

The hardships and dangers involved in the struggle give strength and toughness to the character, and enable it to stand firm in storm as well as in sunshine.

Liberty, as the inestimable birthright of every man, converted every object into an asserter of this right.

This close, intimate, personal cooperation between the management and the men is of the essence of modern scientific or task management.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

One must not avoid one's tests, although they constitute perhaps the most dangerous game one can play, and are in the end tests made only before ourselves and before no other judge.

One must subject oneself to one's own tests that one is destined for independence and command, and do so at the right time.

The whole point depends upon his being at once humble enough to wonder, and haughty enough to defy.

With foresight, and a willingness on the part of our people to face up to the vast responsibility which history has clearly placed upon our country, the difficulties I have outlined can and will be overcome.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

Finally we must have courage and self-confidence to cling to our own methods and conceptions of human society. After all, the greatest danger that can befall us in coping with this problem of Soviet communism, is that we shall allow ourselves to become like those with whom we are coping.

We have more will than wallet; but will is what we need.

There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.

We must show courage in a time of blessing by confronting problems instead of passing them on to future generations.

I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself.

Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.

Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity and usefulness.

Our mission is not punishment, but the rectification of wrong.

The Constitution expresses more than the conviction of the people that democratic processes must be preserved at all costs.