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.
WOODROW WILSONDemocracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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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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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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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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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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I 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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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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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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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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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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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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