If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
WOODROW WILSONLife does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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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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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 ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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