A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
WOODROW WILSONNo government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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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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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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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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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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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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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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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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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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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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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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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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