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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
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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Accomplishment Defeat Order System
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Friendship Fruit Growth Understand
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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Government Law Opinion Organization Seek
Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Choice Live People Right
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
Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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Justice Ourselves People
Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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God Life Perfection Trust Work
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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Borrow Brain Myself
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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Leadership People Ring Voice
I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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Act Aggression Choice Friendship Myself Nation Peace Willing
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
I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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Believe Democracy Energy Human Myself
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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Peace Price Respect
All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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Knowledge Patience Wait Wisdom
Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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Action Document Government Independence Practical Program Theory

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