There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of 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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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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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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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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If 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.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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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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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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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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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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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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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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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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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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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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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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