Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
WOODROW WILSONA radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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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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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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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 object of love is to serve, not to win.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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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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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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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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