The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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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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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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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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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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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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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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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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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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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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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