There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
WOODROW WILSONAbsolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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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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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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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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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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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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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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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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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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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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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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