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.
WOODROW WILSONNever murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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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 man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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We grow by our dreams.
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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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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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