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.
WOODROW WILSONIf 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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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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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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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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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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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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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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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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