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

Woodrow Wilson

War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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Affair Declare God Human War
I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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Believe Exercise Greatness Myself Peace Profession Stand
The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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Darkness Light Ourselves Path Shadow True
Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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God Life Perfection Trust Work
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
Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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Man Murder Suicide
The right is more precious than peace.
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Peace Precious Right
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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Heart Loyalty Myself Principle Sacrifice
What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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Direction Machine Party Person Vote
Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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Man Pain Path Struggle World
Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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Action Document Government Independence Practical Program Theory
I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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Believe Encouragement Fact Freedom Greatness Safety Talk
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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Accomplishment Defeat Order System
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Inspirational Man Stream Strength
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Love Myself Nation Rich
Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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Fear God Need Yourself
We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Beat Death Fight Live
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
The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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Financial Mobile Stop Way
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
The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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Forget King Service Value
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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Government Law Opinion Organization Seek
To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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Brutal Fight Life National Spirit
Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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Capacity Cooperation Gift Leadership Power
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Change Enemy Inspirational Try
Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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Analysis Force Government
One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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Divine Evidence Oneself Preach Survive

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