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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

Woodrow Wilson

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 world must be made safe for democracy.
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Democracy Safety World
Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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Fear God Need Yourself
The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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Country Existence Man Protection White
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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Action Goodness Herself Himself Humble Mistake
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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Imagination Indulgence Man Satisfaction Seek
To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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Freedom Interest Man Necessary Wisdom
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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Counseling Heat Judgment Light
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
Only peace between equals can last.
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Equality Last Peace
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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Enterprise Greatness Man Vision Willing
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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Dignity Easy Lose Man Personal President
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Father Possible University Young
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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Myself Preparation Ready Time
Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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Big Business Dangerous Enjoyment Privilege
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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Big Dreams Greatness Growth Inspirational Man

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

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