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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

Woodrow Wilson

The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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Darkness Light Ourselves Path Shadow True
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Change Consult Doubt
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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Action Declaration Liberty Right Translation
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
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
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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Forget Rich Task World
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
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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Day Lose Myself Reason Win
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
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
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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Difference Time Tragedy Unknown
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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Curiosity Learning Object Satisfaction
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
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Friendship Fruit Growth Understand
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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Country Head

We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

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