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Woodrow Wilson

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Change Consult Doubt
Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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Device Future Greatness Save
The seed of revolution is repression.
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One Liner Oppression Revolution
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
We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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Happiness Noble Proud Reason Record
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
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
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
Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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Benefit Humiliation Segregation
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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Act Body Politics Regard Socialist
War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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Affair Declare God Human War
If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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Character Health Lose Lost Wealth Yourself
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
Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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Analysis Force Government
I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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Believe Democracy Energy Human Myself
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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Balance Organization Peace Power Rivalry
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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Day Save Thinking Way
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
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
The world must be made safe for democracy.
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Democracy Safety World
The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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Luxury Man Music National Need
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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Determination Ignorance Phrase Work
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Conservation Lazy Thinking
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Democracy King Myself
When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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Care Growth Man Myself Observation
Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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Justice Ourselves People
We grow by our dreams.
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Dreams Growth One Liner

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