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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

Woodrow Wilson

Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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Action Document Government Independence Practical Program Theory
Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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Benefit Humiliation Segregation
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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Live Rich World
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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Democracy Design Government Hands Interest People
A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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Action Goodness Herself Himself Humble Mistake
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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History Nation Past Remember Unknown
Only peace between equals can last.
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Equality Last Peace
We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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Happiness Noble Proud Reason Record
America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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Born Devotion Holy Scripture
The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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Desire Peace Spiritual
The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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Affair Complex Literacy Man Ordinary
Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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Growth Man Responsibility
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Move Progress Stand
When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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Care Growth Man Myself Observation
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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Leadership People Ring Voice
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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Borrow Brain Myself

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