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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
Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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Character Daily Friendship Greatness
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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Ideal Identity Nation People Time 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
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
There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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Breathe Organization Power Talk Watch
A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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Action Goodness Herself Himself Humble Mistake
The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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Economics Greatness Heart System Trap Truth
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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Borrow Brain Myself
Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Choice Live People Right
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
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
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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Ancient Liberty Native Plant Safety Tears
Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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Analysis Force Government
The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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Man Mindset Oneself Reading Thinking
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Move Progress Stand

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