We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
WOODROW WILSONI am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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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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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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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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We must believe the things We teach our children
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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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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 come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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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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