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.
WOODROW WILSONWhen 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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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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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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We grow by our dreams.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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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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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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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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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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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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