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28th U S President Inspirational Quotes (425)

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Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
Woodrow Wilson
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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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Reality is what I see, not what you see.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
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I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.
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...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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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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The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.
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I believe very profoundly in an over-ruling Providence, and I do not fear that any real plans can be thrown off the track. It maynot be intended that I shall be President--but that would not break my heart.
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Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes and dries up the wells of his humanity to be forever in search of doctrine. We need wholesome, experiencing na­tures, I dare affirm, much more than we need sound reasoning.
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Movies are like writing history with lightning.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are.
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It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum.
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And while you bring all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you - bringing what is best of their spirit, but not looking over your shoulders and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave behind in them.
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The growth of our nation and all its activities are in the hands of a few men.
Woodrow Wilson
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We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.
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I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.
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You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of allegiance to whom? Of allegiance to no one, unless it be God. Certainly not of allegiance to those who temporarily represent this great government. You have taken an oath of allegiance to a great ideal, to a great body of principles, to a great hope of the human race.
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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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I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen.
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This book [the Bible] speaks both the voice of God and the voice of humanity, for there is told in it the most convincing of human experience that has ever been written...and those who heed that story will know their strength and happiness and success are all summed up in the exhortation, Fear God and keep His commandments.
Woodrow Wilson
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