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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.

Woodrow Wilson

No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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Attitude Care Freedom Government People
The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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Brave Challenge Man Obstacle Scare
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
It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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Born Hard Leadership Palace
Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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Capacity Cooperation Gift Leadership Power
The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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Capital Combination Government Manufacturer
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.
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God Happiness Heart Reading Word Yourself
There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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Brain Head Ideas Shine
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Father Possible University Young
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Inspirational Man Stream Strength
Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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Man Murder Suicide
It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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Border Conscience Dictate Heart Himself Spirit
The right is more precious than peace.
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Peace Precious Right
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Move Progress Stand
If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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Color Mistake Myself People Vote
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

Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.

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