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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.

Woodrow Wilson

Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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Forever Himself Human Kind Man Resistance World
There 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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Peace Price Respect
The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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Brave Challenge Man Obstacle Scare
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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Leadership People Ring Voice
I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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Believe Democracy Energy Human Myself
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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Enterprise Hope Man Realization See Vision
We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Beat Death Fight Live
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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Balance Organization Peace Power Rivalry
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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Country Head
We must believe the things We teach our children
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Believe Children Ourselves Teaching
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
There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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Brain Head Ideas Shine
Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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Man Pay Penalty Refuse Virtue
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Conservation Lazy Thinking
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Friendship Fruit Growth Understand
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Democracy Form Government Principle

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