If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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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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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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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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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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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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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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