Woodrow Wilson on opportunity
Woodrow Wilson162 quotes“Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.”
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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.
Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson 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.
Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson 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.
Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson 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.
Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson 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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