Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
WOODROW WILSONIt is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich 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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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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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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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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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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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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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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