Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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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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The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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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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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.
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