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.
WOODROW WILSONThe ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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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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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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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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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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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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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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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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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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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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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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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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