The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
WOODROW WILSONWe grow by our dreams.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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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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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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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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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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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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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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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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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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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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