If 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.
WOODROW WILSONI have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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Remember 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.
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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 lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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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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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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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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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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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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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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