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.
WOODROW WILSONResponsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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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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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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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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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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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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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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