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America was born a Christian nation.

Woodrow Wilson

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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Government Help Man Representation Willing
I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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Believe Exercise Greatness Myself Peace Profession Stand
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
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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Heart Loyalty Myself Principle Sacrifice
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
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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Character Devotion Himself Man People Thinking
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Democracy King Myself
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
The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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Country Existence Man Protection White
I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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Company Myself Side Teeth
It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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Nation Training War
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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History Liberty Resistance
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
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
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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Country Patriot People

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