The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
WOODROW WILSONThe princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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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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