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The object of love is to serve, not to win.

Woodrow Wilson

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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Counseling Heat Judgment Light
The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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Economics Greatness Heart System Trap Truth
I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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Happiness Man Pleasure Reading Sorry Strength
A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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Action Goodness Herself Himself Humble Mistake
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Inspirational Man Stream Strength
I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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Believe Democracy Energy Human Myself
A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Defeat Himself Man Success
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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Emotion Flag History
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
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 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
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
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
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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Control Domination Rule World Worst
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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Himself Knowledge Subject
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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Enterprise Greatness Man Vision Willing
A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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Conservation Hands Himself Object People Reaction
There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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Better Counseling Difficult Life Man Possible Stand
You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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Ancient Liberty Native Plant Safety Tears
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
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
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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Heart Loyalty Myself Principle Sacrifice
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
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Move Progress Stand
If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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Color Mistake Myself People Vote
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Democracy Form Government Principle
Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Choice Live People Right

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