Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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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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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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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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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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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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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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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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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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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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The right is more precious than peace.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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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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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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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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