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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

Woodrow Wilson

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Caution Reason Secret Selfish
We must believe the things We teach our children
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Believe Children Ourselves Teaching
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
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
The world must be made safe for democracy.
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Democracy Safety World
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
Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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Help Level Prosperity Suffering
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Democracy Form Government Principle
To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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Confidence Temporary Value World
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Condition Identity Leadership Reason
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
We grow by our dreams.
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Dreams Growth One Liner
Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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Action Appearance Expression Suggestion
Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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Device Future Greatness Save
All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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Knowledge Patience Wait Wisdom
Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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Avoid Believe Corruption Government Place Public Secret Thrive

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