Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
WOODROW WILSONThe use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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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.
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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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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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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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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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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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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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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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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