What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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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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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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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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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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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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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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