I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
WOODROW WILSONIf you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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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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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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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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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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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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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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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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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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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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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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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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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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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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The seed of revolution is repression.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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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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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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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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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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We grow by our dreams.
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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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