It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
WOODROW WILSONThe whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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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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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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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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It 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.
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