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Woodrow Wilson

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Change Consult Doubt
The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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Forget King Service Value
Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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Action Appearance Expression Suggestion
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Democracy King Myself
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Inspirational Man Stream Strength
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
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Caution Reason Secret Selfish
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
Only peace between equals can last.
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Equality Last Peace
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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Forget Rich Task World
Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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Analysis Force Government
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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Goodness Greatness Human Religion Service Work
To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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Freedom Interest Man Necessary Wisdom
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
I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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Believe Encouragement Fact Freedom Greatness Safety Talk
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

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