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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.

Woodrow Wilson

Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Move Progress Stand
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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Control Domination Rule World Worst
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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Borrow Brain Myself
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Condition Identity Leadership Reason
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
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
Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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Big Business Dangerous Enjoyment Privilege
Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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Action Appearance Expression Suggestion
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
The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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Bad Live Open Politics
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
“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
The world must be made safe for democracy.
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Democracy Safety World
A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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Himself Important Man
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
Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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Action Document Government Independence Practical Program Theory

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