Vice President Quotes

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
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.
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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.
Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.
Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.
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.
Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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