“My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.”
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Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.