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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Woodrow Wilson

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.
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Children Grace Home Miracle Religious Trouble
A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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Action Goodness Herself Himself Humble Mistake
The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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Desire Peace Spiritual
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
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
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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Forget Rich Task World
No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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Attitude Care Freedom Government People
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
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 intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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Happiness Noble Proud Reason Record
Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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Action Appearance Expression Suggestion
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
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Friendship Fruit Growth Understand
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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Emotion Flag History
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Opportunity Responsibility
A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Defeat Himself Man Success

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