"When I give a man an office,..." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson
When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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“Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw. They will have sweet tongues & silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power & India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even air & water would be taxed in India.”
“Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.”
“A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.”
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“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”
“Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you”
“He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart.”