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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.

Woodrow Wilson

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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Children Grace Home Miracle Religious Trouble
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
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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Heart Loyalty Myself Principle Sacrifice
Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Choice Live People Right
Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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Action Appearance Expression Suggestion
Only peace between equals can last.
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Equality Last Peace
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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Government Help Man Representation Willing
One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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Divine Evidence Oneself Preach Survive
Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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Man Pay Penalty Refuse Virtue
What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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Direction Machine Party Person Vote
It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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Nation Training War
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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Breed Hungry Impossible Life Mad Order Reform
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
We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Beat Death Fight Live
Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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Device Future Greatness Save
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
Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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Analysis Force Government
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
The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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Forget King Service Value
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
War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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Affair Declare God Human War
America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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Born Devotion Holy Scripture
I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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Happiness Man Pleasure Reading Sorry Strength
It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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Born Hard Leadership Palace
To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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Freedom Interest Man Necessary Wisdom
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 people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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Brother Circle Enlightenment Kind Live Man People Sister Thinking True

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