When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
WOODROW WILSONNo man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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