We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
WOODROW WILSONLoyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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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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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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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 I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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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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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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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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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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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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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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