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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

Woodrow Wilson

I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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Battle Believe Courage Moral Physical Soldier Stay
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
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
It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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Nation Training War
Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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Man Murder Suicide
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
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
We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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Happiness Noble Proud Reason Record
I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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Believe Democracy Energy Human Myself
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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Emotion Flag History
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
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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Leadership People Ring Voice
The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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Capital Combination Government Manufacturer
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.
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Attitude Care Freedom Government People
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Move Progress Stand
We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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Act Born Growth World

A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

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