We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
WOODROW WILSONNo man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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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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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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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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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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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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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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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 man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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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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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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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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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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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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