The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
WOODROW WILSONIf a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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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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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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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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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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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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“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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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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No 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.
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We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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