We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
WOODROW WILSONI have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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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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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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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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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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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 fewer the desires, the more peace.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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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.
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