Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
WOODROW WILSONBusiness 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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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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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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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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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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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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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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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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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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