A 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.
WOODROW WILSONWe 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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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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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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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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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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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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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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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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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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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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