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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

Woodrow Wilson

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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Democracy Design Government Hands Interest People
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
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Father Possible University Young
We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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Ancestor Fine Ideal Man Person Unity
This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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Equality Power Struggle War
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
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Caution Reason Secret Selfish
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
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
When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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Care Growth Man Myself Observation
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Opportunity Responsibility
It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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Born Hard Leadership Palace
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Move Progress Stand
The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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Economics Greatness Heart System Trap Truth
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
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

No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

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