The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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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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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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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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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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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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