It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
WOODROW WILSONThe man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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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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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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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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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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