Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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 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 conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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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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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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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 man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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No 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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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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