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Woodrow Wilson

It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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Border Conscience Dictate Heart Himself Spirit
We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Beat Death Fight Live
It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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Nation Training War
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Caution Reason Secret Selfish
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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Goodness Greatness Human Religion Service Work
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Father Possible University Young
I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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Care Government Hands Man Myself
Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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Man Murder Suicide
There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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Brain Head Ideas Shine
Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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Character Daily Friendship Greatness
Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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God Himself Mortal President Remember
Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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God Life Perfection Trust Work
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Act Action Life Thinking
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Opportunity Responsibility
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
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

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