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.
WOODROW WILSONThe whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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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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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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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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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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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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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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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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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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