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.
WOODROW WILSONThe seed of revolution is repression.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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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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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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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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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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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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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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