A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
WOODROW WILSONThe masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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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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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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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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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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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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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 disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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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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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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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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