Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
WOODROW WILSONWhat is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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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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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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