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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Woodrow Wilson

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.
WOODROW WILSON

Education Literacy Lost Sound Start Yourself
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
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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Accomplishment Defeat Order System
Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Choice Live People Right
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Change Enemy Inspirational Try
If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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Color Mistake Myself People Vote
If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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Children Grace Home Miracle Religious Trouble
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Empty God Stomach Worship
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
Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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Fear God Need Yourself
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 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
A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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Himself Important Man
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
There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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Better Counseling Difficult Life Man Possible Stand
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
WOODROW WILSON

Book Man Myself Possible Reading Talk Writing

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