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 WILSONThat a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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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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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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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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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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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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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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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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