If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
WOODROW WILSONIf the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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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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Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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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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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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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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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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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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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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