When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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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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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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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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The seed of revolution is repression.
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