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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.

Woodrow Wilson

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
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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Live Rich World
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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Conscience Dog Examination Face Home Yourself
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
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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Day Save Thinking Way
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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Enterprise Greatness Man Vision Willing
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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Country Patriot People
There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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Better Counseling Difficult Life Man Possible Stand
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
I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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Act Aggression Choice Friendship Myself Nation Peace Willing
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
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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Book Man Myself Possible Reading Talk Writing
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Move Progress Stand
Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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Man Pay Penalty Refuse Virtue
The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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Love Object Service Win
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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Company Enjoyment Friendship Myself Teaching
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Conservation Lazy Thinking
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Democracy King Myself
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
WOODROW WILSON

Determination Ignorance Phrase Work
Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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Growth Heart Justice Power Resistance Soil Spirit
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
All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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Knowledge Patience Wait Wisdom
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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Accomplishment Defeat Order System
America was born a Christian nation.
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Born Nation Religious
America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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Born Devotion Holy Scripture
It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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Nation Training War
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

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