The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
WOODROW WILSONI 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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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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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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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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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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