I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
WOODROW WILSONBenevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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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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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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We grow by our dreams.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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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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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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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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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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