Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
WOODROW WILSONAbsolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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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 roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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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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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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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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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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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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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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There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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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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