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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.

Woodrow Wilson

No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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Attitude Care Freedom Government People
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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Democracy Design Government Hands Interest People
If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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Achievement Inspirational Mindset Right Yourself
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Condition Identity Leadership Reason
It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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Born Hard Leadership Palace
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
As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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Division Experience Fact Irresponsible Power
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
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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Dignity Easy Lose Man Personal President
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Inspirational Man Stream Strength
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
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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Close Dreams Luxury Philosophy Thinking
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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Big Dreams Greatness Growth Inspirational Man
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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Live Rich World
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
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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Action Declaration Liberty Right Translation

We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.

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