No 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.
WOODROW WILSONI 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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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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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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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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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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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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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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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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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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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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