The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
WOODROW WILSONSegregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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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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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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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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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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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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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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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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