Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
WOODROW WILSONWe are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Only peace between equals can last.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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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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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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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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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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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 great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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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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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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