A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
WOODROW WILSONI would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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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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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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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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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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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 man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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Business 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.
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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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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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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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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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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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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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America was born a Christian nation.
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