Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
WOODROW WILSONIf 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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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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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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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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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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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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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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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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