One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
WOODROW WILSONIt’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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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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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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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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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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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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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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Big 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.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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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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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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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 have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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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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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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