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.
WOODROW WILSONWe 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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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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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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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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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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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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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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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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