What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
WOODROW WILSONOne of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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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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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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We 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.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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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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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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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 right is more precious than peace.
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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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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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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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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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