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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

Woodrow Wilson

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
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
The world must be made safe for democracy.
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Democracy Safety World
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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Help Level Prosperity Suffering
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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Children Heat Light
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Act Action Life Thinking
Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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Growth Heart Justice Power Resistance Soil Spirit
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
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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Day Save Thinking Way
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
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
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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Imagination Indulgence Man Satisfaction Seek
I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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Failure Feeling Goodness Head
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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Counseling Democracy Man Purpose Understand
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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Goodness Greatness Human Religion Service Work
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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Big Business Dangerous Enjoyment Privilege
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Democracy Form Government Principle
Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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Fear God Need Yourself
War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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Affair Declare God Human War
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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Capacity Cooperation Gift Leadership Power
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Opportunity Responsibility
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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Direction Machine Party Person Vote
We grow by our dreams.
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Dreams Growth One Liner
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
We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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Ancestor Fine Ideal Man Person Unity
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Father Possible University Young
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

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