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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Woodrow Wilson

The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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Economics Greatness Heart System Trap Truth
High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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Important Society Stop Work
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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Character Devotion Himself Man People Thinking
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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Man Mindset Oneself Reading Thinking
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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Close Dreams Luxury Philosophy Thinking
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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Goodness Greatness Human Religion Service Work
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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Failure Feeling Goodness Head
The seed of revolution is repression.
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One Liner Oppression Revolution
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Democracy King Myself
We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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Act Born Growth World
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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Domination Freedom Government Majority Man Opinion Vote
A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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Himself Important Man
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Move Progress Stand
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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Balance Carry Closet Fear Greatness Heart Peace People Terrible
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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Man Pain Path Struggle World
The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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Desire Peace Spiritual

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