Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
WOODROW WILSONI have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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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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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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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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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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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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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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