We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
WOODROW WILSONWhen correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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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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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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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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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.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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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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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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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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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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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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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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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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