What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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.
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Business 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.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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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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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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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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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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