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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.

Woodrow Wilson

A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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Conservation Hands Himself Object People Reaction
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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Country Patriot People
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 ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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Leadership People Ring Voice
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Father Possible University Young
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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Borrow Brain Myself
I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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Believe Encouragement Fact Freedom Greatness Safety Talk
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
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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Enterprise Greatness Man Vision Willing
A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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Himself Important Man
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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Children Heat Light
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
When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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Care Growth Man Myself Observation
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Democracy King Myself
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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Heart Loyalty Myself Principle Sacrifice
I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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Believe Exercise Greatness Myself Peace Profession Stand

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