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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Woodrow Wilson
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Woodrow Wilson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1856
Born: December 28
Died: 1924
Died: February 23
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I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.
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It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum.
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government.... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government.
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Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.
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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing if you lose your health, you have lost something but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.
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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.
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The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.
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It has become a people's war, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune, are involved inits sweeping processes of change and settlement.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union it was the rebirth of the Union.
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I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.
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