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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.

Woodrow Wilson

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
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
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Act Action Life Thinking
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Change Consult Doubt
There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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Better Counseling Difficult Life Man Possible Stand
It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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Nation Training War
There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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Breathe Organization Power Talk Watch
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
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
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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Enterprise Greatness Man Vision Willing
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 must believe the things We teach our children
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Believe Children Ourselves Teaching
I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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Greatness Myself Party Past Respect Talk
Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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Growth Heart Justice Power Resistance Soil Spirit
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
At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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Crisis Life Salvation Thinking

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