If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
WOODROW WILSON“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We grow by our dreams.
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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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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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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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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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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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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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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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