Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
WOODROW WILSONI have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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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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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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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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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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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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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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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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