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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

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Caution Reason Secret Selfish
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Opportunity Responsibility
At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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Crisis Life Salvation Thinking
If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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Character Health Lose Lost Wealth Yourself
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
A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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Himself Important Man
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
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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Children Heat Light
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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Imagination Indulgence Man Satisfaction Seek
Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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Children Commercial Man Modern Myself Rival Rivalry Woman World
America was born a Christian nation.
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Born Nation Religious
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
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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God Happiness Heart Reading Word Yourself
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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Big Dreams Greatness Growth Inspirational Man
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Father Possible University Young
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Friendship Fruit Growth Understand
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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Day Save Thinking Way
Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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Man Pay Penalty Refuse Virtue
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
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Change Enemy Inspirational Try
“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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Bright Genius Myself Original Perseverance
There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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Brain Head Ideas Shine
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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Enterprise Greatness Man Vision Willing
Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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God Himself Mortal President Remember
The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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Bad Live Open Politics
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

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