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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Woodrow Wilson

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
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
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Conservation Lazy Thinking
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
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
The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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Love Object Service Win
War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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Affair Declare God Human War
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Act Action Life Thinking
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
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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Achievement Forget Greatness Hope Live Mistake Order Vision World Yourself
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
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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Big Dreams Greatness Growth Inspirational Man
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
Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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God Life Perfection Trust Work
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.
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Cooperation Man Play Servant Time
A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Defeat Himself Man Success

Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

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