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The fewer the desires, the more peace.

Woodrow Wilson

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
Only peace between equals can last.
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Equality Last Peace
I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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Business Kind Liberty Sports Thinking World
I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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Act Aggression Choice Friendship Myself Nation Peace Willing
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Empty God Stomach Worship
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Father Possible University Young
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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Freedom Man Sacred War
All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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Knowledge Patience Wait Wisdom
The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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Counseling Democracy Man Purpose Understand
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
This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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Equality Power Struggle War
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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Peace Price Respect
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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Freedom Justice Peace Right Stability World
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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Day Lose Myself Reason Win
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
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Change Consult Doubt

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