Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
WOODROW WILSONRemember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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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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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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“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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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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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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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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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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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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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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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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