We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
WOODROW WILSONThe world must be made safe for democracy.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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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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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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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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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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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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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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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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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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