You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
WOODROW WILSONThe white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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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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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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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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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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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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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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