The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
WOODROW WILSONProgressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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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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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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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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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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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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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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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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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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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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Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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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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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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