We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
WOODROW WILSONIt 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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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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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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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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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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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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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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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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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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