A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
WOODROW WILSONI have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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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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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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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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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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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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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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