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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

Woodrow Wilson

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Democracy Form Government Principle
The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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Luxury Man Music National Need
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
To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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Brutal Fight Life National Spirit
Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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Device Future Greatness Save
If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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Color Mistake Myself People Vote
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Change Consult Doubt
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
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?
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Growth Heart Justice Power Resistance Soil Spirit
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
I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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Failure Feeling Goodness Head
We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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Ancestor Fine Ideal Man Person Unity
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
Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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Man Murder Suicide
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
Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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Big Business Dangerous Enjoyment Privilege

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