It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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