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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.

Woodrow Wilson

The world must be made safe for democracy.
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Democracy Safety World
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
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Father Possible University Young
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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Forget Rich Task World
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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Achievement Forget Greatness Hope Live Mistake Order Vision World Yourself
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
It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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Born Hard Leadership Palace
Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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Analysis Force Government
We must believe the things We teach our children
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Believe Children Ourselves Teaching
If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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Character Health Lose Lost Wealth Yourself
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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Book Man Myself Possible Reading Talk Writing
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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Breed Hungry Impossible Life Mad Order Reform
No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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Government Live Man Myself See
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
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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Conscience Dog Examination Face Home Yourself
The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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Desire Peace Spiritual
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
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Condition Identity Leadership Reason
A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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Himself Important Man
I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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Believe Democracy Energy Human Myself
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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Dignity Easy Lose Man Personal President
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Opportunity Responsibility
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
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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Borrow Brain Myself
No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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Attitude Care Freedom Government People
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
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Change Consult Doubt

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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