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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

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
Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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Benefit Humiliation Segregation
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
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
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
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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Government Law Opinion Organization Seek
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
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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Close Dreams Luxury Philosophy Thinking
Only peace between equals can last.
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Equality Last Peace
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
Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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Analysis Force Government
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Father Possible University Young
If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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Color Mistake Myself People Vote
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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Character Devotion Himself Man People Thinking
War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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Affair Declare God Human War
America was born a Christian nation.
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Born Nation Religious

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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