If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
WOODROW WILSONIt 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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We grow by our dreams.
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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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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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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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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 must believe the things We teach our children
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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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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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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