The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
WOODROW WILSONThe object of love is to serve, not to win.
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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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