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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.

Woodrow Wilson

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Change Enemy Inspirational Try
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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Character Devotion Himself Man People Thinking
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Condition Identity Leadership Reason
I 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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Believe Exercise Greatness Myself Peace Profession Stand
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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Ideal Identity Nation People Time World
The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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Country Development Greatness Money Question
It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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Border Conscience Dictate Heart Himself Spirit
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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Enterprise Greatness Man Vision Willing
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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Education Literacy Lost Sound Start Yourself
No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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Brother Circle Enlightenment Kind Live Man People Sister Thinking True
Thought 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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Action Appearance Expression Suggestion
If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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Children Grace Home Miracle Religious Trouble
I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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Battle Believe Courage Moral Physical Soldier Stay
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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Class Difficult Education Liberty Manual Necessary Person Society Task
The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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Brave Challenge Man Obstacle Scare
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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Growth Heart Justice Power Resistance Soil Spirit

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