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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.

Woodrow Wilson

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Democracy King Myself
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
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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Class Difficult Education Liberty Manual Necessary Person Society Task
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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Act Born Growth World
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
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Democracy Form Government Principle
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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Accomplishment Defeat Order System
“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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Bright Genius Myself Original Perseverance
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
The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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Forget King Service Value
The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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Financial Mobile Stop Way
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
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Caution Reason Secret Selfish
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
Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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Benefit Humiliation Segregation

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