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.
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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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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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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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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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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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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I 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.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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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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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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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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