No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
WOODROW WILSONNo student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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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.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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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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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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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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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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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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