When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
WOODROW WILSONThere 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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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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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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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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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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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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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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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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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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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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“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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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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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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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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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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