If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
WOODROW WILSONBusiness underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Only peace between equals can last.
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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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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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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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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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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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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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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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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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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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