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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

Woodrow Wilson

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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Country Head
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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Enterprise Hope Man Realization See Vision
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
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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Live Rich World
I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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Greatness Myself Party Past Respect Talk
All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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Knowledge Patience Wait Wisdom
Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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Growth Man Responsibility
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Business Empty God Life National Spiritual Stomach Worship
We must believe the things We teach our children
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Believe Children Ourselves Teaching
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
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
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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Goodness Greatness Human Religion Service Work
The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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Civilization Spiritual Survive
We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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Division End Interest Purpose Separate Stand Togetherness
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.
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Forever Himself Human Kind Man Resistance World
No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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Himself Hood Man Rise Service Spiritual
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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Peace Price Respect
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
I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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Education Literacy Lost Sound Start Yourself
The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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Love Object Service Win
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Act Action Life Thinking
Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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Avoid Believe Corruption Government Place Public Secret Thrive
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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Government Law Opinion Organization Seek
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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Class Difficult Education Liberty Manual Necessary Person Society Task
I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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Act Aggression Choice Friendship Myself Nation Peace Willing
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
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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Balance Organization Peace Power Rivalry

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