It wasn't by that method that you found your way from Austin, Texas, to your present eminence and wisdom.

Nor was that the way our friend found his way from a little law-office in Atlanta, where I first saw him, to the White House.
More and more I am struck with this--that governments are human.
They are not remote abstractions, nor impersonal institutions.

Men conduct them; and they do not cease to be men.

A man is made up of six parts of human nature and four parts of facts and other things--a little reason, some prejudice, much provincialism, and of the particular fur or skin that suits his habitat.

When you wish to win a man to do what _you_ want him to do, you take along a few well-established facts, some reasoning and such-like, but you take along also three or four or five parts of human nature--kindliness, courtesy, and such things--sympathy and a human touch.
If a man be six parts human and four parts of other things, a government, especially a democracy, is seven, or eight, or nine parts human nature.