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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

Woodrow Wilson

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
WOODROW WILSON

Believe Encouragement Fact Freedom Greatness Safety Talk
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
I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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Failure Feeling Goodness Head
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
High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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Important Society Stop Work
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Act Action Life Thinking
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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Borrow Brain Myself
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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Book Man Myself Possible Reading Talk Writing
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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Class Difficult Education Liberty Manual Necessary Person Society Task
The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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Consist Duty Ideal Name Role
The right is more precious than peace.
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Peace Precious Right
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Move Progress Stand
You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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Ancient Liberty Native Plant Safety Tears
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
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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Achievement Forget Greatness Hope Live Mistake Order Vision World Yourself
If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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Achievement Inspirational Mindset Right Yourself
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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Forget Rich Task World
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
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Friendship Fruit Growth Understand
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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Action Declaration Liberty Right Translation
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
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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Accomplishment Defeat Order System
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
We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Beat Death Fight Live
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
Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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Man Murder Suicide
Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
WOODROW WILSON

Benefit Humiliation Segregation

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