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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.

Woodrow Wilson

Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Move Progress Stand
Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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Fear God Need Yourself
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Change Enemy Inspirational Try
Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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Big Business Dangerous Enjoyment Privilege
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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Curiosity Learning Object Satisfaction
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Friendship Fruit Growth Understand
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
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Condition Identity Leadership Reason
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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Action Declaration Liberty Right Translation
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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Enterprise Greatness Man Vision Willing
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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Dignity Easy Lose Man Personal President
The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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Bad Live Open Politics
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
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
Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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Growth Man Responsibility
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

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