Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
WOODROW WILSONI 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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America was born a Christian nation.
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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