Word: equal
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...with these ideals of service and example, we are going to help others and ourselves, we must have some fundamental rule for our political life. That rule is found in the Declaration of Independence, which declares that "All men are created free and equal." I believe that this is the most important political truth that ever fell from human lips. If you do not believe in it, you want a government of favoritism...
...what do we mean by men being created equal? We mean that in natural rights every man is the equal of every other man. We mean that society should be as nearly as possible adjusted so as to enable every man to get from it in exact proportion as he contributes...
...must apply the principle of equal rights to the money question. The very people who say it is dead are trying to pass new money bills, and are boasting about the increase of money in the country--a result to which they have not contributed. The increase of money, they say, has brought prosperity. Thus they themselves admit that more money would have brought more prosperity. If we really apply the doctrine of equal rights, we shall have plenty of money, and a dollar which is just between man and man, because it is stable...
Important as it is to apply this doctrine of equal rights in settling domestic questions, it is even more important to apply it in settling foreign questions, in which we actually touch other nations. I find that we are asserting today a doctrine against which Washington took up his sword. They call it expansion, but I deny it. There is a difference between expansion and imperialism...
...ought to have as much endurance and stamina as those in England, who take part in the Oxford-Cambridge races. I certainly hope they have as much, but that is not the point. What I contend is that our boys are called upon to bear, not merely a strain equal to that of the Oxford-Cambridge contest, and of the preparation for it, but a greater one. Greater because, as I have previously pointed out, of the difference in weather conditions during the contest, and during the period of preparation for it, because of the added worry of the final...