If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
WOODROW WILSONGovernment ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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At 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.
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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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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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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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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We must believe the things We teach our children
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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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