If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
WOODROW WILSONWe have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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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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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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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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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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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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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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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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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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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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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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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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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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The seed of revolution is repression.
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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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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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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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