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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.

Woodrow Wilson

I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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Believe Democracy Energy Human Myself
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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Act Body Politics Regard Socialist
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 have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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Control Domination Rule World Worst
The world must be made safe for democracy.
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Democracy Safety World
We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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Domination Freedom Government Majority Man Opinion Vote
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Condition Identity Leadership Reason
The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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Country Existence Man Protection White
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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Freedom Man Sacred War
As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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Division Experience Fact Irresponsible Power
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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Live Rich World
Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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Help Level Prosperity Suffering
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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Dignity Easy Lose Man Personal President
The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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Country Development Greatness Money Question
The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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Darkness Light Ourselves Path Shadow True
We must believe the things We teach our children
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Believe Children Ourselves Teaching
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Conservation Lazy Thinking
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 believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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Battle Believe Courage Moral Physical Soldier Stay
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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Accomplishment Defeat Order System
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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Enterprise Greatness Man Vision Willing
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
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
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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Determination Ignorance Phrase Work
America was born a Christian nation.
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Born Nation Religious
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
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

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