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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.

Woodrow Wilson

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
We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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Division End Interest Purpose Separate Stand Togetherness
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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Battle Believe Courage Moral Physical Soldier Stay
If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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Achievement Inspirational Mindset Right Yourself
You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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Ancient Liberty Native Plant Safety Tears
Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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Action Appearance Expression Suggestion
Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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Benefit Humiliation Segregation
I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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Believe Democracy Energy Human Myself
Only peace between equals can last.
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Equality Last Peace
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
The right is more precious than peace.
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Peace Precious Right
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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Country Development Greatness Money Question
Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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Help Level Prosperity Suffering
The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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Forget King Service Value
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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Balance Organization Peace Power Rivalry
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

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