Only peace between equals can last.
WOODROW WILSONI 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.’
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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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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“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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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 am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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We grow by our dreams.
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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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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