If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
WOODROW WILSONThere 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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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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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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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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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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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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