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.
WOODROW WILSONWork is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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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.
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When 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.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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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 has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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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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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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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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