One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
WOODROW WILSONAt 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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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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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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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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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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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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There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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