It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
WOODROW WILSONNo man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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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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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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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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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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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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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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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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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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