No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
WOODROW WILSONNo 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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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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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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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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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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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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Only peace between equals can last.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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