I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
WOODROW WILSONWhat every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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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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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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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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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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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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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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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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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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