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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.

Woodrow Wilson

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
WOODROW WILSON

Country Patriot People
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
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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God Happiness Heart Reading Word Yourself
Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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Man Pay Penalty Refuse Virtue
The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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Brave Challenge Man Obstacle Scare
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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Himself Knowledge Subject
A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Defeat Himself Man Success
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Conservation Lazy Thinking
I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
WOODROW WILSON

Happiness Man Pleasure Reading Sorry Strength
The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
WOODROW WILSON

Freedom Justice Peace Right Stability World
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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Close Dreams Luxury Philosophy Thinking
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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Accomplishment Defeat Order System
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.
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Peace Price Respect
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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History Liberty Resistance
The world must be made safe for democracy.
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Democracy Safety World
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
WOODROW WILSON

Country Head

We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.

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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.

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