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 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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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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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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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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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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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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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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