The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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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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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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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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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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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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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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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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