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.
WOODROW WILSONIf 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.
WOODROW WILSONThe right is more precious than peace.
WOODROW WILSONWe grow by our dreams.
WOODROW WILSONA 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.
WOODROW WILSONWe 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.
WOODROW WILSONThere is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
WOODROW WILSONThere is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
WOODROW WILSONThe princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
WOODROW WILSONThe ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
WOODROW WILSONI not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
WOODROW WILSONThe man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
WOODROW WILSONA fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
WOODROW WILSONI 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.
WOODROW WILSONWhat every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
WOODROW WILSONThe Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
WOODROW WILSONA conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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