War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
WOODROW WILSONAny 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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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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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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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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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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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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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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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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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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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 here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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We grow by our dreams.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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