127 ordspråk av Woodrow T. Wilson
Woodrow T. Wilson
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work
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Congress is continually appointing fact-finding committees, when what we really need are some fact-facing committees.
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Congress seems to favor a stable government, judging from the amount of stalling it does
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Corruption thrives in secret places.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him
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Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.
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Fear God and you need not be afraid of anyone else
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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
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From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress,
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Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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