When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
WOODROW WILSONWhat every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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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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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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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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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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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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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 fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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