Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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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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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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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.
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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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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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