You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
WOODROW WILSONWe are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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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.
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Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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We grow by our dreams.
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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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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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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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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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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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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.
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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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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