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.
WOODROW WILSONIf you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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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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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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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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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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“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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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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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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