A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
WOODROW WILSONThere 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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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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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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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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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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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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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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