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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Woodrow Wilson

There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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Cooperation Man Play Servant Time
Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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Children Commercial Man Modern Myself Rival Rivalry Woman World
Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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Man Pain Path Struggle World
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
No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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Attitude Care Freedom Government People
It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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Born Hard Leadership Palace
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
WOODROW WILSON

Empty God Stomach Worship
High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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Important Society Stop Work
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 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
The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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Capital Combination Government Manufacturer
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Condition Identity Leadership Reason
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
“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
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Democracy Form Government Principle
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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Book Man Myself Possible Reading Talk Writing

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