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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.

Woodrow Wilson

I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
WOODROW WILSON

Believe Democracy Energy Human Myself
The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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Man Mindset Oneself Reading Thinking
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Change Consult Doubt
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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Action Declaration Liberty Right Translation
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
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
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Move Progress Stand
All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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Knowledge Patience Wait Wisdom
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Opportunity Responsibility
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
The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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Forget King Service Value
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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Border Conscience Dictate Heart Himself Spirit
The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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Freedom Justice Peace Right Stability World
Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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Analysis Force Government
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Friendship Fruit Growth Understand
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

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