Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
WOODROW WILSONWe have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
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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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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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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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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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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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We grow by our dreams.
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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