Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
WOODROW WILSONWe must believe the things We teach our children
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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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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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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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.
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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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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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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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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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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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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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