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.
WOODROW WILSONBig business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great 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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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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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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Men 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.
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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.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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