I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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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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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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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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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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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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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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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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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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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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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