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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

Woodrow Wilson

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
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Act Action Life Thinking
Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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Analysis Force Government
Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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Big Business Dangerous Enjoyment Privilege
Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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Benefit Humiliation Segregation
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
We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Beat Death Fight Live
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 ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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Affair Complex Literacy Man Ordinary
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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Dignity Easy Lose Man Personal President
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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Country Head
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
There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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Cooperation Man Play Servant Time
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
America was born a Christian nation.
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Born Nation Religious
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Democracy King Myself

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