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

Woodrow Wilson

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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Breed Hungry Impossible Life Mad Order Reform
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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History Liberty Resistance
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
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
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
A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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Himself Important Man
The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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Forget King Service Value
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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Balance Organization Peace Power Rivalry
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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Leadership People Ring Voice
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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Live Rich World
We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Beat Death Fight Live
You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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Ancient Liberty Native Plant Safety Tears
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
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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Country Patriot People
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
Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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Fear God Need Yourself
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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Determination Ignorance Phrase Work
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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Curiosity Learning Object Satisfaction
We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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Happiness Noble Proud Reason Record
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
It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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Born Hard Leadership Palace
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Empty God Stomach Worship
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Condition Identity Leadership Reason
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
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Caution Reason Secret Selfish
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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Emotion Flag History
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Conservation Lazy Thinking

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