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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

Woodrow Wilson

The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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Financial Mobile Stop Way
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
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
The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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Luxury Man Music National Need
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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Act Body Politics Regard Socialist
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
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Change Consult Doubt
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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Peace Price Respect
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Caution Reason Secret Selfish
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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Day Lose Myself Reason Win
Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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Action Document Government Independence Practical Program Theory
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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Government Live Man Myself See
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
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
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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Day Save Thinking Way
Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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Analysis Force Government

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