High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
WOODROW WILSONSelf-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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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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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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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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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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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’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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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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