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 WILSONIf I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Only peace between equals can last.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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We grow by our dreams.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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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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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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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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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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