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.
WOODROW WILSON“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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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 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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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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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 have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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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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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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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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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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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 roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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