When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
WOODROW WILSONThe object of love is to serve, not to win.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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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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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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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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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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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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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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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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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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