"Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity."
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"Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership."
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"If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle."
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"Remember 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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"We must believe the things We teach our children"
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"Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit..."
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"Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself."
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"A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have"
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"Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused."
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"This book [the Bible] speaks both the voice of God and the voice of humanity, for there is told in it the most convincing of human experience that has ever been written...and those who heed that story will know their strength and happiness and success are all summed up in the exhortation, "Fear God and keep His commandments.""
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"Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force."
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"Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible."
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"I came from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its wreckage and terrible ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamour for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or son of some poor widow away off in some modest community, or perhaps the scion of a great family, who will have to do the fighting."
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"Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?"
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"One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived."
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"No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work."
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"Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril."
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"The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right."
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"One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils."
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"Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life."
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