Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
WOODROW WILSONJefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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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 could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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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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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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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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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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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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