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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.

Woodrow Wilson

What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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Imagination Indulgence Man Satisfaction Seek
I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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Battle Believe Courage Moral Physical Soldier Stay
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
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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Growth Heart Justice Power Resistance Soil Spirit
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
It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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Border Conscience Dictate Heart Himself Spirit
I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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Believe Encouragement Fact Freedom Greatness Safety Talk
I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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Education Literacy Lost Sound Start Yourself
Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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Avoid Believe Corruption Government Place Public Secret Thrive
I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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Failure Feeling Goodness Head
If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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Children Grace Home Miracle Religious Trouble
The right is more precious than peace.
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Peace Precious Right
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Change Consult Doubt
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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Book Man Myself Possible Reading Talk Writing
The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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Affair Complex Literacy Man Ordinary
Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Choice Live People Right

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