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.
WOODROW WILSONUnless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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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.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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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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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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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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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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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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