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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.

Woodrow Wilson

It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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Nation Training War
I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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Care Government Hands Man Myself
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
We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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Division End Interest Purpose Separate Stand Togetherness
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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Imagination Indulgence Man Satisfaction Seek
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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Conservation Hands Himself Object People Reaction
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
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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Conscience Dog Examination Face Home Yourself
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
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Conservation Lazy Thinking
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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Himself Knowledge Subject
No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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Government Live Man Myself See
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
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
There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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Breathe Organization Power Talk Watch
I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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Believe Exercise Greatness Myself Peace Profession Stand

If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.

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