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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Woodrow Wilson

No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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Attitude Care Freedom Government People
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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Difference Time Tragedy Unknown
It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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Nation Training War
A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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Conservation Hands Himself Object People Reaction
Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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Analysis Force Government
I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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Happiness Man Pleasure Reading Sorry Strength
A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Defeat Himself Man Success
If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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Children Grace Home Miracle Religious Trouble
Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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Capacity Cooperation Gift Leadership Power
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Democracy King Myself
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
A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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Action Goodness Herself Himself Humble Mistake
The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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Man Mindset Oneself Reading Thinking
The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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Bad Live Open Politics
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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Control Domination Rule World Worst
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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Day Save Thinking Way

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