There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
WOODROW WILSONNo man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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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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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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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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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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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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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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