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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

Woodrow Wilson

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
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Opportunity Responsibility
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Democracy King Myself
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Democracy Form Government Principle
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
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
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
I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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Business Kind Liberty Sports Thinking World
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
The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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Country Existence Man Protection White
Only peace between equals can last.
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Equality Last Peace
The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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Country Development Greatness Money Question
Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Choice Live People Right
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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Children Heat Light
There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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Cooperation Man Play Servant Time
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

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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