One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
WOODROW WILSONI would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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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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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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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.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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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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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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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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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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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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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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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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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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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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