I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
WOODROW WILSONTo do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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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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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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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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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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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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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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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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