If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
WOODROW WILSONThe sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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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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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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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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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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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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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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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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