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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.

Woodrow Wilson

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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Balance Organization Peace Power Rivalry
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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Emotion Flag History
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
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
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
I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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Greatness Myself Party Past Respect Talk
All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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Knowledge Patience Wait Wisdom
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Friendship Fruit Growth Understand
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
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
We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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Act Born Growth World
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Opportunity Responsibility
No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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Brother Circle Enlightenment Kind Live Man People Sister Thinking True
The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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Freedom Justice Peace Right Stability World
If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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Color Mistake Myself People Vote
The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
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Leadership Nature Peace Reveal Salvation Source Spiritual
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 seed of revolution is repression.
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One Liner Oppression Revolution
America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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Born Devotion Holy Scripture
A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Defeat Himself Man Success
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
I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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Business Kind Liberty Sports Thinking World
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
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Condition Identity Leadership Reason
The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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Financial Mobile Stop Way
Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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Man Murder Suicide
No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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Government Live Man Myself See

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