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.
WOODROW WILSONAny man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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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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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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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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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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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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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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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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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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