The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
WOODROW WILSONThe roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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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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The 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.
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The 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.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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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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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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