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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

Woodrow Wilson

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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Capacity Cooperation Gift Leadership Power
Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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God Himself Mortal President Remember
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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Freedom Liberty Love Myself Nation Rich
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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Children Heat Light
The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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Counseling Democracy Man Purpose Understand
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Inspirational Man Stream Strength
This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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Equality Power Struggle War
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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Live Rich World
War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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Affair Declare God Human War
What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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Direction Machine Party Person Vote
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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Borrow Brain Myself
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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Failure Feeling Goodness Head
Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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Action Appearance Expression Suggestion
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
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Act Action Life Thinking
At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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Crisis Life Salvation Thinking
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
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Move Progress Stand
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Condition Identity Leadership Reason
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Democracy Form Government Principle
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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Enterprise Greatness Man Vision Willing
The world must be made safe for democracy.
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Democracy Safety World
Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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Avoid Believe Corruption Government Place Public Secret Thrive
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
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
When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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Care Growth Man Myself Observation
It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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Nation Training War

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