The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
WOODROW WILSONThe 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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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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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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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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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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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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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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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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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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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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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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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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