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 WILSONAmerica is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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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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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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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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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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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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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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Only peace between equals can last.
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