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.
WOODROW WILSONGovernment, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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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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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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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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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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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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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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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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