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.
WOODROW WILSONThe use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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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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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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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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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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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 man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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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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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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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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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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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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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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