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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

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
Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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Big Business Dangerous Enjoyment Privilege
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
We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Beat Death Fight Live
No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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Himself Hood Man Rise Service Spiritual
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
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
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
Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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Device Future Greatness Save
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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Borrow Brain Myself
No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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Brother Circle Enlightenment Kind Live Man People Sister Thinking True
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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Leadership People Ring Voice
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
Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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Benefit Humiliation Segregation
The seed of revolution is repression.
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One Liner Oppression Revolution
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

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