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.
WOODROW WILSONI 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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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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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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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 cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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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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