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.
WOODROW WILSONToday’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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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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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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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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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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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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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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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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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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