We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
WOODROW WILSONA 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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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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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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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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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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We must believe the things We teach our children
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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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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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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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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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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