It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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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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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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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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“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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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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