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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Woodrow Wilson

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
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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Equality Power Struggle War
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Democracy Form Government Principle
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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Crisis Life Salvation Thinking
The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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Financial Mobile Stop Way
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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Action Goodness Herself Himself Humble Mistake
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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Care Government Hands Man Myself
The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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Desire Peace Spiritual
The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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Brave Challenge Man Obstacle Scare
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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Government Help Man Representation Willing
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Friendship Fruit Growth Understand
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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Big Dreams Greatness Growth Inspirational Man
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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Forget Rich Task World
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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Live Rich World
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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Accomplishment Defeat Order System
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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History Nation Past Remember Unknown

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