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.
WOODROW WILSONAs a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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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 radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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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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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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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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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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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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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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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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