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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

Woodrow Wilson

Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Act Action Life Thinking
“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
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Opportunity Responsibility
The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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Consist Duty Ideal Name Role
We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Beat Death Fight Live
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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History Nation Past Remember Unknown
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
Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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Justice Ourselves People
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Change Enemy Inspirational Try
The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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Counseling Democracy Man Purpose Understand
If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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Color Mistake Myself People Vote
Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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God Himself Mortal President Remember
The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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Forget King Service Value
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Condition Identity Leadership Reason
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
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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Children Heat Light

Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

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