A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
WOODROW WILSONMen are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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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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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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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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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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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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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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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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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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