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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

Woodrow Wilson

It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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Nation Training War
Only peace between equals can last.
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Equality Last Peace
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
I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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Education Literacy Lost Sound Start Yourself
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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Day Save Thinking Way
Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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God Himself Mortal President Remember
Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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Growth Man Responsibility
Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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Device Future Greatness Save
Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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Forever Himself Human Kind Man Resistance World
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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Children Heat Light
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
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
Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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Man Murder Suicide
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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Breed Hungry Impossible Life Mad Order Reform
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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Curiosity Learning Object Satisfaction
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

We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

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