It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
WOODROW WILSONIf I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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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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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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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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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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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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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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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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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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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 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 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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We grow by our dreams.
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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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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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