“Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement”
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“Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement”
“Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence”
“In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.”
“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both”
“Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy”
“The most important political office is that of the private citizen”
“The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities”
“To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution”
“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable”
“Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent”
“The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.”
“The reality is, all over the country the number of people in the homeless condition continues to grow. It will grow significantly as far as the eye can see. It's near crisis right now. It will certainly get there”
“The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished”
“Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity”
“The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves”
“No calculations of interest, no schemes of policy can do the work of love, of the spirit of human brotherhood. There can be no peace without but through peace within.”
“The less of government the better, if society were kept in peace and prosperity.”
“One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands”
“Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf”
“Half a truth is better than no politics”