Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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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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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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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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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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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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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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