Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
WOODROW WILSONI am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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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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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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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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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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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.
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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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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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We grow by our dreams.
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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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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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