A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
WOODROW WILSONThought 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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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 must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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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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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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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 want to make enemies, try to change something.
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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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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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