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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Woodrow Wilson

You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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Forget Rich Task World
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
Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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God Life Perfection Trust Work
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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Brutal Fight Life National Spirit
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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Children Heat Light
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Conservation Lazy Thinking
Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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Growth Man Responsibility
We grow by our dreams.
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Dreams Growth One Liner
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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Class Difficult Education Liberty Manual Necessary Person Society Task
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
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
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
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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Close Dreams Luxury Philosophy Thinking
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Inspirational Man Stream Strength
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
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
It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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Balance Carry Closet Fear Greatness Heart Peace People Terrible
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
Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Choice Live People Right
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
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Friendship Fruit Growth Understand
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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Myself Preparation Ready Time
I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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Care Government Hands Man Myself
We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Beat Death Fight Live
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
The right is more precious than peace.
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Peace Precious Right
I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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Company Myself Side Teeth

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