There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
WOODROW WILSONIf you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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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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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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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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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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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.
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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 a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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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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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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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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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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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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