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Read less and think more. Read about great things and think
about great questions and issues. We have at the present time
few really great figures in the political life of our country;
our politicians are a petty lot. There is no Lincoln, no
Webster, no Clay, Calhoun, or Jackson. Why? Because our present
statesmen deal only with sordid and petty issues - questions of
dollars and cents, of expediency and party success, of material
prosperity without regard to ethical right. Thinking along
these lines does not call forth great souls. The statesmen of
Lincoln’s time and previous times dealt with questions of
eternal truth, of human rights and justice. Men thought upon
great themes; they thought great thoughts, and they became
great men.
Thinking, not mere knowledge or information, makes personality.
Thinking is growth; you cannot think without growing.
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