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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.

Woodrow Wilson

America was born a Christian nation.
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Born Nation Religious
Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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God Life Perfection Trust Work
Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Choice Live People Right
Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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Character Daily Friendship Greatness
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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Class Difficult Education Liberty Manual Necessary Person Society Task
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
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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Act Body Politics Regard Socialist
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
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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Determination Ignorance Phrase Work
A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Defeat Himself Man Success
Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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Growth Man Responsibility
Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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Justice Ourselves People
Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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Capacity Cooperation Gift Leadership Power
When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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Care Growth Man Myself Observation
The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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Country Development Greatness Money Question
Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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Action Document Government Independence Practical Program Theory
It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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Born Hard Leadership Palace
Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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Fear God Need Yourself
The world must be made safe for democracy.
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Democracy Safety World
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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Dignity Easy Lose Man Personal President
You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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Ancient Liberty Native Plant Safety Tears
The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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Forget King Service Value
War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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Affair Declare God Human War
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Act Action Life Thinking
I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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Believe Democracy Energy Human Myself
Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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Benefit Humiliation Segregation
The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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Capital Combination Government Manufacturer

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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