I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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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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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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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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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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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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We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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