Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
WOODROW WILSONThat a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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To 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.
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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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 want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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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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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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