The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
WOODROW WILSONI 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.’
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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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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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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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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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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We grow by our dreams.
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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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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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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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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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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.
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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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