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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Woodrow Wilson

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.
WOODROW WILSON

Battle Believe Courage Moral Physical Soldier Stay
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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Domination Freedom Government Majority Man Opinion Vote
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Inspirational Man Stream Strength
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
As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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Division Experience Fact Irresponsible Power
There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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Breathe Organization Power Talk Watch
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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Accomplishment Defeat Order System
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Change Enemy Inspirational Try
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Empty God Stomach Worship
We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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Happiness Noble Proud Reason Record
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Move Progress Stand
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Democracy Form Government Principle
Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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Benefit Humiliation Segregation
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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Day Lose Myself Reason Win
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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Government Live Man Myself See
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

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