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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.

Woodrow Wilson

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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History Nation Past Remember Unknown
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
Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Choice Live People Right
It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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Born Hard Leadership Palace
Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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Device Future Greatness Save
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
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
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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Country Development Greatness Money Question
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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Attitude Care Freedom Government People
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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Border Conscience Dictate Heart Himself Spirit
At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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Crisis Life Salvation Thinking
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
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Friendship Fruit Growth Understand
To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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Confidence Temporary Value World
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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Enterprise Greatness Man Vision Willing
Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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Growth Man Responsibility

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