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.
WOODROW WILSONIt 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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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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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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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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