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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

Woodrow Wilson

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
WOODROW WILSON

Peace Price Respect
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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Achievement Forget Greatness Hope Live Mistake Order Vision World Yourself
Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Choice Live People Right
A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Defeat Himself Man Success
There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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Cooperation Man Play Servant Time
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Business Empty God Life National Spiritual Stomach Worship
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Act Action Life Thinking
What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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Direction Machine Party Person Vote
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
WOODROW WILSON

Ideal Identity Nation People Time World
The object of love is to serve, not to win.
WOODROW WILSON

Love Object Service Win
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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Action Declaration Liberty Right Translation
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Caution Reason Secret Selfish
The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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Consist Duty Ideal Name Role
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Conservation Lazy Thinking
I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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Failure Feeling Goodness Head
You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
WOODROW WILSON

Ancient Liberty Native Plant Safety Tears

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