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 WILSONA man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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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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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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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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