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.
WOODROW WILSONWar isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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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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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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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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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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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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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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