We must believe the things We teach our children
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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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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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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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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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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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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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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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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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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