You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
WOODROW WILSONNo man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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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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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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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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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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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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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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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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