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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

Woodrow Wilson

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
There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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Cooperation Man Play Servant Time
War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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Affair Declare God Human War
There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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Better Counseling Difficult Life Man Possible Stand
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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Children Heat Light
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Opportunity Responsibility
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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Business Empty God Life National Spiritual Stomach Worship
As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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Division Experience Fact Irresponsible Power
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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Difference Time Tragedy Unknown
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
A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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Himself Important Man
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Empty God Stomach Worship
We must believe the things We teach our children
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Believe Children Ourselves Teaching
Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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Big Business Dangerous Enjoyment Privilege
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
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Friendship Fruit Growth Understand

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

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