Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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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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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We grow by our dreams.
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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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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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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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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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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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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.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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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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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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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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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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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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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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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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