When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
WOODROW WILSONThere must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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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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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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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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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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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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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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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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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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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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There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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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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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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We grow by our dreams.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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