High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
WOODROW WILSONWe want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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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.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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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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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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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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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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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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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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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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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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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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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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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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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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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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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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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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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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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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