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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.

Woodrow Wilson

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.
WOODROW WILSON

History Nation Past Remember Unknown
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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Border Conscience Dictate Heart Himself Spirit
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
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
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
Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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Fear God Need Yourself
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Conservation Lazy Thinking
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Change Enemy Inspirational Try
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
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
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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Control Domination Rule World Worst
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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Live Rich World
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
Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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Benefit Humiliation Segregation
Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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Justice Ourselves People
The 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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Country Existence Man Protection White

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