The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

—Woodrow Wilson

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Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th president of the United States, serving from 1913 to 1921. He was the only Democrat to serve as president during the Progressive Era, when Republicans dominated the presidency and legislative branches. As president, Wilson made significant economic...

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Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

—Woodrow Wilson

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

—Woodrow Wilson

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

—Woodrow Wilson

A mind too active is no mind at all.

—Woodrow Wilson

I never dared to be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old.

—Woodrow Wilson

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I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

—Ralph W. Sockman

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.

—Kahlil Gibran

The highest result of education is tolerance.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.

—Helen Keller

In the modern world, self-control buys a good life indeed. Having self-control to spare is rare enough nowadays that the marketplace lavishes huge rewards on society's scary new self-control elite, those lords of discipline who not only withstood all that boring stuff in graduate school, but keep themselves thin by carefully regulating what they eat after flogging themselves off to the gym at the crack of dawn. It's as if they got the news ahead of the rest of us-no doubt by waking up earlier-that self-control may well be the most important trait of the twenty-first century.

—Heinrich Heine

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