A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
WOODROW WILSONOne cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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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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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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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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We grow by our dreams.
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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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We must believe the things We teach our children
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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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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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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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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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
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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 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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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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