The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
WOODROW WILSONToday’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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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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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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I 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.’
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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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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.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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We grow by our dreams.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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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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We must believe the things We teach our children
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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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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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