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If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people?

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in

Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

A race cannot be purified from without.

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

The progress of society rests upon the increasing collectivity of human labor.

Great events are usually preceded by apparently small things.

The demons of depression could find no foothold when he was around

His cheery optimism never failed, even when food was very short and the prospect of relief seemed remote.

Government is competent when all who compose it work as trustees for the whole people.

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms

Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit.

Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights--then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward.

The principal object of management should be to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with the maximum prosperity for each employee.

In place of the suspicious watchfulness and the more or less open warfare which characterizes the ordinary types of management, there is universally friendly cooperation between the management and the men.

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

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.

It would be neither fitting nor efficacious for this Government to undertake to draw up unilaterally a program designed to place Europe on its feet economically. This is the business of the Europeans.

Your strength can compensate for my weakness, and your wisdom can help to minimize my mistakes.

We will lead not merely by the example of our power but by the power of our example.

I will give my all in your service thinking not of power, but of possibilities.

One of the benefits of freedom is that under it the ruler can not pass by the people's minds, and amend their affairs for them without amending them.

In this the Endowments of Men are so employed, that the Friend and the Governor are united in one, and oppressive Customs come to an End.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.