Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
WOODROW WILSONThat a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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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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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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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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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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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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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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We grow by our dreams.
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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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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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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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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.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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