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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.

Woodrow Wilson

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Father Possible University Young
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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Country Patriot People
No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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Himself Hood Man Rise Service Spiritual
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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God Happiness Heart Reading Word Yourself
The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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Desire Peace Spiritual
We grow by our dreams.
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Dreams Growth One Liner
Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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Avoid Believe Corruption Government Place Public Secret Thrive
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
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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Government Law Opinion Organization Seek
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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Big Dreams Greatness Growth Inspirational Man
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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Heart Loyalty Myself Principle Sacrifice
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Inspirational Man Stream Strength
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
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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Enterprise Hope Man Realization See Vision
America was born a Christian nation.
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Born Nation Religious
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
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
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Democracy King Myself
All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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Knowledge Patience Wait Wisdom
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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Accomplishment Defeat Order System
The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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Financial Mobile Stop Way
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
A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Defeat Himself Man Success
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
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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Counseling Heat Judgment Light
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 you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Change Enemy Inspirational Try

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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