The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
WOODROW WILSONWhat every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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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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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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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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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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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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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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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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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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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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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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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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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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