The fewer the desires, the more peace.
WOODROW WILSONHas justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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America was born a Christian nation.
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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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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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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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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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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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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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