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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.

Woodrow Wilson

Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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God Life Perfection Trust Work
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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Company Enjoyment Friendship Myself Teaching
The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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Consist Duty Ideal Name Role
The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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Bad Live Open Politics
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
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Democracy King Myself
The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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Darkness Light Ourselves Path Shadow True
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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Counseling Democracy Man Purpose Understand
I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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Believe Exercise Greatness Myself Peace Profession Stand
High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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Important Society Stop Work
We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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Domination Freedom Government Majority Man Opinion Vote
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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Emotion Flag History
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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Live Rich World
A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Defeat Himself Man Success
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
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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Business Kind Liberty Sports Thinking World
America was born a Christian nation.
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Born Nation Religious
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
A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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Conservation Hands Himself Object People Reaction
The right is more precious than peace.
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Peace Precious Right
The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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Forget King Service Value
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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Enterprise Hope Man Realization See Vision
As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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Division Experience Fact Irresponsible Power
Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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Children Commercial Man Modern Myself Rival Rivalry Woman World
There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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Brain Head Ideas Shine
There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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Cooperation Man Play Servant Time
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Democracy Form Government Principle

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