There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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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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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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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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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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