We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
WOODROW WILSONUnless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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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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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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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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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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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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We must believe the things We teach our children
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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