Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
WOODROW WILSONThe man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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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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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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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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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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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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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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