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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.

Woodrow Wilson

Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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Determination Ignorance Phrase Work
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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God Happiness Heart Reading Word Yourself
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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History Liberty Resistance
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
Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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Growth Man Responsibility
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Act Action Life Thinking
The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
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Leadership Nature Peace Reveal Salvation Source Spiritual
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Friendship Fruit Growth Understand
The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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Capital Combination Government Manufacturer
America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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Born Devotion Holy Scripture
This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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Equality Power Struggle War
There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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Brain Head Ideas Shine
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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Goodness Greatness Human Religion Service Work
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
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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Enterprise Greatness Man Vision Willing
No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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Attitude Care Freedom Government People
The seed of revolution is repression.
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One Liner Oppression Revolution
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Inspirational Man Stream Strength
We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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Ancestor Fine Ideal Man Person Unity
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
The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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Darkness Light Ourselves Path Shadow True
I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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Greatness Myself Party Past Respect Talk
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
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Conservation Lazy Thinking
Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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Device Future Greatness Save
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 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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Day Lose Myself Reason Win

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