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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.

Woodrow Wilson

Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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Children Commercial Man Modern Myself Rival Rivalry Woman 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
We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Beat Death Fight Live
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
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
If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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Achievement Inspirational Mindset Right Yourself
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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Freedom Liberty Love Myself Nation Rich
Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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Character Daily Friendship Greatness
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Democracy King Myself
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
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
The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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Man Mindset Oneself Reading Thinking
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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Company Enjoyment Friendship Myself Teaching
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
At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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Crisis Life Salvation Thinking
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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Enterprise Greatness Man Vision Willing

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