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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

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
War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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Affair Declare God Human War
What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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Direction Machine Party Person Vote
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 government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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Attitude Care Freedom Government People
Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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Man Pain Path Struggle World
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Change Enemy Inspirational Try
A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Defeat Himself Man Success
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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Difference Time Tragedy Unknown
There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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Cooperation Man Play Servant Time
The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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Brave Challenge Man Obstacle Scare
One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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Divine Evidence Oneself Preach Survive
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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Accomplishment Defeat Order System
America was born a Christian nation.
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Born Nation Religious
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Condition Identity Leadership Reason
Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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Growth Man Responsibility

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