I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
WOODROW WILSONI would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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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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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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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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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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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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We grow by our dreams.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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