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" America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. "
Woodrow Wilson
Man
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" Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles. "
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" Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. "
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" There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States. "
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" Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them. "
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" 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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" We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study. "
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" My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. "
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" Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. "
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" Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling. "
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" Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. "
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" Tell me what is right and I will fight for it. "
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" The seed of revolution is repression. "
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" By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative', one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary', one who won't go at all. "
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" The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. "
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" If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing. "
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" He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it. "
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Who
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" You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape. "
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" Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. "
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" Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. "
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" In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. "
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" It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. "
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" As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur. "
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" The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people. "
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