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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.

Woodrow Wilson

A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Defeat Himself Man Success
What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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Direction Machine Party Person Vote
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
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Love Myself Nation Rich
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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Act Body Politics Regard Socialist
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
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
Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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Benefit Humiliation Segregation
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
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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Close Dreams Luxury Philosophy Thinking
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
Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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Character Daily Friendship Greatness
Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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Help Level Prosperity Suffering
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
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
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Inspirational Man Stream Strength

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