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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.

Woodrow Wilson

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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Day Save Thinking Way
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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Freedom Man Sacred War
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Business Empty God Life National Spiritual 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
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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Difference Time Tragedy Unknown
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Move Progress Stand
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Inspirational Man Stream Strength
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Change Consult Doubt
“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
We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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Happiness Noble Proud Reason Record
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
The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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Forget King Service Value
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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Luxury Man Music National Need
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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Live Rich World
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Opportunity Responsibility
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
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
The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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Freedom Justice Peace Right Stability World
Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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Action Document Government Independence Practical Program Theory
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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Heart Loyalty Myself Principle Sacrifice
We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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Act Born Growth World
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
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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Man Mindset Oneself Reading Thinking
I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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Believe Encouragement Fact Freedom Greatness Safety Talk
To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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Brutal Fight Life National Spirit
All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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Knowledge Patience Wait Wisdom
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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Myself Preparation Ready Time

To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.

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