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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.

Woodrow Wilson

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
Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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Fear God Need Yourself
I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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Company Myself Side Teeth
Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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Justice Ourselves People
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Move Progress Stand
We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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Domination Freedom Government Majority Man Opinion Vote
I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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Act Aggression Choice Friendship Myself Nation Peace Willing
The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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Civilization Spiritual Survive
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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Heart Loyalty Myself Principle Sacrifice
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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Day Lose Myself Reason Win
A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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Himself Important Man
This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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Equality Power Struggle War
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
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
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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Enterprise Hope Man Realization See Vision
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

A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.

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