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.
WOODROW WILSONRemember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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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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The seed of revolution is repression.
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There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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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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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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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 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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Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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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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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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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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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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