The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
WOODROW WILSONTo be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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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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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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We grow by our dreams.
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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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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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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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America was born a Christian nation.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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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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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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