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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.

Woodrow Wilson

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
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Caution Reason Secret Selfish
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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Counseling Heat Judgment Light
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
I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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Happiness Man Pleasure Reading Sorry Strength
You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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Ancient Liberty Native Plant Safety Tears
The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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Desire Peace Spiritual
I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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Business Kind Liberty Sports Thinking World
The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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Capital Combination Government Manufacturer
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Act Action Life Thinking
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
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Opportunity Responsibility
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
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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Class Difficult Education Liberty Manual Necessary Person Society Task
The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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Darkness Light Ourselves Path Shadow True
To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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Freedom Interest Man Necessary Wisdom

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.

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