One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
WOODROW WILSONBenevolence 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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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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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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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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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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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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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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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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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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