Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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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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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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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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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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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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