We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
WOODROW WILSONThought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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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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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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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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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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