To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
WOODROW WILSONThe 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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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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Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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America was born a Christian nation.
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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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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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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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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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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 ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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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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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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