Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
WOODROW WILSON
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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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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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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 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.
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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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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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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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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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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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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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