If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
WOODROW WILSONWe 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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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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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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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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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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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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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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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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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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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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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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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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