The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
WOODROW WILSONRemember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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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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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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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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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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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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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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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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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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