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Only peace between equals can last.

Woodrow Wilson

“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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Bright Genius Myself Original Perseverance
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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Freedom Man Sacred War
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
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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Emotion Flag History
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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Accomplishment Defeat Order System
We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Beat Death Fight Live
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
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Father Possible University Young
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
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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God Happiness Heart Reading Word Yourself
A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Defeat Himself Man Success
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
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
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
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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Act Body Politics Regard Socialist
Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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Benefit Humiliation Segregation

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