We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
WOODROW WILSONLife does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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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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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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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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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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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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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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America was born a Christian nation.
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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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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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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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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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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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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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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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We grow by our dreams.
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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