A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
WOODROW WILSONIf 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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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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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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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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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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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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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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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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