What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
WOODROW WILSONIf I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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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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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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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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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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