"The success of a party means little..." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson
The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic party. It seeks to use it to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.
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“Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.”
“The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.”
“Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.”
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“The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.”
“Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds.”
“A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.”
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“The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?”
“It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.”
“It's just really about trying to do whatever it is I do at a level of excellence. That's really all I'm trying to do while I'm here.”