It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
WOODROW WILSONI am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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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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We grow by our dreams.
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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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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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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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Only peace between equals can last.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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