The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
WOODROW WILSONToday’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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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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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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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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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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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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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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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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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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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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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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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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