If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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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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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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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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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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Only peace between equals can last.
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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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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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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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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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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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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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