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.
WOODROW WILSONAt 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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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 whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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We grow by our dreams.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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