Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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 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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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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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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The seed of revolution is repression.
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Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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