“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.”
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
