A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
WOODROW WILSONUncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, 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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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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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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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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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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