The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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 way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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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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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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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.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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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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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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