Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
WOODROW WILSONNo man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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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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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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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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Only peace between equals can last.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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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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