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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

Woodrow Wilson

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
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
Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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Device Future Greatness Save
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
Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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Growth Heart Justice Power Resistance Soil Spirit
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
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Move Progress Stand
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
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
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
A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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Conservation Hands Himself Object People Reaction
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Condition Identity Leadership Reason
Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Choice Live People Right
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
The right is more precious than peace.
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Peace Precious Right
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

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