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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

Woodrow Wilson

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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History Liberty Resistance
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 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
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
It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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Balance Carry Closet Fear Greatness Heart Peace People Terrible
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
The world must be made safe for democracy.
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Democracy Safety World
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
A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Defeat Himself Man Success
We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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Division End Interest Purpose Separate Stand Togetherness
The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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Civilization Spiritual Survive
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Inspirational Man Stream Strength
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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Emotion Flag History
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 conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Conservation Lazy Thinking
If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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Character Health Lose Lost Wealth Yourself

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