We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
WOODROW WILSONSometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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