Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
WOODROW WILSONI 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.
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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The seed of revolution is repression.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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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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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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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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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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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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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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