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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

Woodrow Wilson

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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Freedom Man Sacred War
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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Day Save Thinking Way
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
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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Emotion Flag History
Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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Justice Ourselves People
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
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
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
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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Act Body Politics Regard Socialist
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Father Possible University Young
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Empty God Stomach Worship
Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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Man Pain Path Struggle World
I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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Company Myself Side Teeth
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
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Opportunity Responsibility

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