If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
WOODROW WILSONThe right is more precious than peace.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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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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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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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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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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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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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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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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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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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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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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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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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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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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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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