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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.

Woodrow Wilson

Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Opportunity Responsibility
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
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.
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Believe Encouragement Fact Freedom Greatness Safety Talk
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
There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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Brain Head Ideas Shine
The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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Love Object Service Win
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
To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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Confidence Temporary Value World
If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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Character Health Lose Lost Wealth Yourself
Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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Character Daily Friendship Greatness
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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History Nation Past Remember Unknown
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
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
It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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Nation Training War
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

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.

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