A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
WOODROW WILSONMen 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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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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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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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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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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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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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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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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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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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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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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