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we and they wish to take, why, of course, take it, without any regard to the 

 fact that our views as to the tenth step may differ. But, on the other hand, 

 keep clearly in mind that, though it has been worth while to take the step, this 

 does not in the least mean that it may not be highly disadvantageous to take 

 the next. 



" The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and he will see to it 

 that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own. Probably the 

 best test of true love of liberty in any country is the way in which minorities 

 are treated in religion and opinion, but complete liberty for each man to lead 

 his life as he desires, provided only that in so doing he does not wrong his 

 neighbor. 



" There is no greater need to-day than the need to keep ever in mind the 

 fact that the cleavage between right and wrong, between good citizenship and 

 bad citizenship, runs at right angles to, and not parallel with, the lines of 

 cleavage between class and class, between occupation and occupation. Ruin 

 looks us in the face if we judge a man by his position instead of judging him by 

 his conduct in that position. 



" Of one man in especial, beyond any one else, the citizens of a republic 

 should beware, and that is of the man who appeals to them to support him on 

 the ground that he is hostile to other citizens of the republic, that he will obtain 

 for those who elect him, in one shape or another, profit at the expense of other 

 citizens of the republic. 



" If a public man tries to get your vote by saying that he will do some- 

 thing wrong in your interest, you can be absolutely certain that if ever it 

 becomes worth his while he will do something wrong against your interest. 



" I believe that a man must be a good patriot before he can be, and as the 

 only possible way of being, a good citizen of the world. Experience teaches 

 us that the average man who protests that his international feeling swamps his 

 national feeling, that he does not care for his country because he cares so much 

 for mankind, in actual practice proves himself the foe of mankind; that the 

 man who says that he does not care to be a citizen of any one country, because 

 he is a citizen of the world, is in very fact usually an exceedingly undesirable 

 citizen of whatever corner of the world he happens at the moment to be in, 



" I do not for one moment admit that political morality is different from 

 private morality, that a promise made on the stump differs from a promise 

 made in private life. I do not for one moment admit that a man should act 

 deceitfully as a public servant in his dealings with other nations, any more 

 than that he should act deceitfully in his dealings as a private citizen with other 

 private citizens. I do not for one moment admit that a nation should treat 

 other nations in a different spirit from that in which an honorable man would 

 treat other men." 



