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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.

Woodrow Wilson

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
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Love Myself Nation Rich
We grow by our dreams.
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Dreams Growth One Liner
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
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
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
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Change Consult Doubt
I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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Failure Feeling Goodness Head
We must believe the things We teach our children
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Believe Children Ourselves Teaching
I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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Company Myself Side Teeth
Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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Justice Ourselves People
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
The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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Counseling Democracy Man Purpose Understand
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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Accomplishment Defeat Order System
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Father Possible University Young
To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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Confidence Temporary Value World
Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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Device Future Greatness Save
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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Himself Knowledge Subject
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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Borrow Brain Myself
America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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Born Devotion Holy Scripture
It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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Balance Carry Closet Fear Greatness Heart Peace People Terrible
You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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Ancient Liberty Native Plant Safety Tears
No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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Brother Circle Enlightenment Kind Live Man People Sister Thinking True
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
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
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Attitude Care Freedom Government People

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