What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
WOODROW WILSONIt is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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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.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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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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We must believe the things We teach our children
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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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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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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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