I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
WOODROW WILSONAll things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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Only peace between equals can last.
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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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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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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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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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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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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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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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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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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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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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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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