The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
WOODROW WILSONThe man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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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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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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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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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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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 man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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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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