I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
WOODROW WILSONThe masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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