American - President | December 28, 1856 - February 3, 1924
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 Wilson
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Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
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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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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
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There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
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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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At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.
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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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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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