Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
WOODROW WILSONWe ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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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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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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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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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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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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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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