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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.

Woodrow Wilson

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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Borrow Brain Myself
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
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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Day Lose Myself Reason Win
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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Ideal Identity Nation People Time World
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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Emotion Flag History
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Opportunity Responsibility
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 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
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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Man Pain Path Struggle World
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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Enterprise Hope Man Realization See Vision
We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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Ancestor Fine Ideal Man Person Unity
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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Children Heat Light
Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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Children Commercial Man Modern Myself Rival Rivalry Woman World
To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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Brutal Fight Life National Spirit
We must believe the things We teach our children
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Believe Children Ourselves Teaching
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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Freedom Man Sacred War
A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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Himself Important Man
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
The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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Consist Duty Ideal Name Role
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Empty God Stomach Worship
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
War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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Affair Declare God Human War
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Business Empty God Life National Spiritual Stomach Worship
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
Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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Help Level Prosperity Suffering
We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Beat Death Fight Live
Only peace between equals can last.
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Equality Last Peace

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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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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