A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
WOODROW WILSONHunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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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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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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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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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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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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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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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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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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