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 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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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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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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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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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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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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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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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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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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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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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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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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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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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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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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