Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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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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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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If 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.
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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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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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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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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.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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