I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
WOODROW WILSONCaution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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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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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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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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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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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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