The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
WOODROW WILSONAmerica was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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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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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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