I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
WOODROW WILSON“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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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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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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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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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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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 that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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