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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

Woodrow Wilson

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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Counseling Heat Judgment Light
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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Conscience Dog Examination Face Home Yourself
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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Class Difficult Education Liberty Manual Necessary Person Society Task
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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Heart Loyalty Myself Principle Sacrifice
If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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Character Health Lose Lost Wealth Yourself
To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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Brutal Fight Life National Spirit
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.
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Forever Himself Human Kind Man Resistance World
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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Accomplishment Defeat Order System
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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Action Declaration Liberty Right Translation
“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
One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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Divine Evidence Oneself Preach Survive
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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Freedom Man Sacred War
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
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 I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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Care Growth Man Myself Observation
The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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Country Existence Man Protection White

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