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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.

Woodrow Wilson

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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History Nation Past Remember Unknown
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Father Possible University Young
Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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Fear God Need Yourself
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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Day Save Thinking Way
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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Himself Knowledge Subject
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
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Friendship Fruit Growth Understand
Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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Help Level Prosperity Suffering
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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Control Domination Rule World Worst
The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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Bad Live Open Politics
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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Goodness Greatness Human Religion Service Work
The world must be made safe for democracy.
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Democracy Safety World
I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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Happiness Man Pleasure Reading Sorry Strength
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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Difference Time Tragedy Unknown
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
To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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Freedom Interest Man Necessary Wisdom
There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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Cooperation Man Play Servant Time
The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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Affair Complex Literacy Man Ordinary
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
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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Imagination Indulgence Man Satisfaction Seek
I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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Believe Democracy Energy Human Myself
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
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
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
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Condition Identity Leadership Reason
A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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Conservation Hands Himself Object People Reaction
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Empty God Stomach Worship

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