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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.

Woodrow Wilson

The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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Civilization Spiritual Survive
We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Beat Death Fight Live
War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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Affair Declare God Human War
The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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Bad Live Open Politics
A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Defeat Himself Man Success
It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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Balance Carry Closet Fear Greatness Heart Peace People Terrible
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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Imagination Indulgence Man Satisfaction Seek
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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Live Rich World
The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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Country Existence Man Protection White
The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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Desire Peace Spiritual
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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Attitude Care Freedom Government People
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
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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Himself Knowledge Subject
There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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Cooperation Man Play Servant Time
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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Curiosity Learning Object Satisfaction
The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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Affair Complex Literacy Man Ordinary
The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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Love Object Service Win
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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Big Business Dangerous Enjoyment Privilege
One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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Divine Evidence Oneself Preach Survive
I 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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Believe Exercise Greatness Myself Peace Profession Stand
All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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Knowledge Patience Wait Wisdom
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Empty God Stomach Worship
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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Difference Time Tragedy Unknown
The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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Counseling Democracy Man Purpose Understand
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
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Inspirational Man Stream Strength
Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Choice Live People Right

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