No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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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 long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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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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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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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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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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