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

Woodrow Wilson

Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
WOODROW WILSON

Condition Identity Leadership Reason
I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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Act Aggression Choice Friendship Myself Nation Peace Willing
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
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
We 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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Class Difficult Education Liberty Manual Necessary Person Society Task
The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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Desire Peace Spiritual
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Caution Reason Secret Selfish
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 history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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History Liberty Resistance
There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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Breathe Organization Power Talk Watch
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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Close Dreams Luxury Philosophy Thinking
Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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Growth Man Responsibility
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
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
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Change Enemy Inspirational Try
This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
WOODROW WILSON

Equality Power Struggle War

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