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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.

Woodrow Wilson

Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Condition Identity Leadership Reason
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
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
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Friendship Fruit Growth Understand
The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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Man Mindset Oneself Reading Thinking
Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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Character Daily Friendship Greatness
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Democracy King Myself
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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Battle Believe Courage Moral Physical Soldier Stay
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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Heart Loyalty Myself Principle Sacrifice
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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Big Dreams Greatness Growth Inspirational Man
I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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Believe Exercise Greatness Myself Peace Profession Stand
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
No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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Brother Circle Enlightenment Kind Live Man People Sister Thinking True
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Change Consult Doubt
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
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
The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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Affair Complex Literacy Man Ordinary
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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Goodness Greatness Human Religion Service Work
Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Choice Live People Right
The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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Consist Duty Ideal Name Role
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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Leadership People Ring Voice
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Caution Reason Secret Selfish
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
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
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
The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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Forget King Service Value
The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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Love Object Service Win

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