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.
WOODROW WILSONMen grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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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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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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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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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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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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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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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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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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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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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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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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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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