Woodrow Wilson Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Selfish Quotes

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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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

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America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness, which are derived from Holy Scripture. Ladies and gentlemen, I have a very simple thing to ask of you. I ask of every man and woman in this audience that, from this night on, they will realize that part of the destiny of America lies in their daily perusal of this great Book of revelations. (The Bible) That if they would see America free and pure they will make their own spirits free and pure by the baptism of Holy Scripture.

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In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.

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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.

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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

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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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I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

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May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.

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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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No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.

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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

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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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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

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No man can be just who is not free.

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The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet.

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I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.

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That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.

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Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.

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