The object of love is to serve, not to win.
WOODROW WILSONTo conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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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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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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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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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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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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