It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
WOODROW WILSONThe way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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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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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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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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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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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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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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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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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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