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.
WOODROW WILSONBusiness underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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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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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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Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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We grow by our dreams.
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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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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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