America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
WOODROW WILSONWhen I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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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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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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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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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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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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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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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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