Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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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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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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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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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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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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We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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