No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
WOODROW WILSONNo man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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We 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.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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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 white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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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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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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