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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Father Possible University Young
The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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Economics Greatness Heart System Trap Truth
The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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Love Object Service Win
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Opportunity Responsibility
America was born a Christian nation.
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Born Nation Religious
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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Darkness Light Ourselves Path Shadow True
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Love Myself Nation Rich
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
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
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
Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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Help Level Prosperity Suffering
A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Defeat Himself Man Success
Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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Device Future Greatness Save
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Conservation Lazy Thinking
A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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Action Goodness Herself Himself Humble Mistake
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Class Difficult Education Liberty Manual Necessary Person Society Task

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