If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
WOODROW WILSONNo 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.
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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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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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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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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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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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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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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