I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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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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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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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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The 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.
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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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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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