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 WILSONWhen you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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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Government 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.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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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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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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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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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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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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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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