If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
WOODROW WILSONAmerica is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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.
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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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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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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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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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