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.
WOODROW WILSONIf 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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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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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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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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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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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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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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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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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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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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