The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
WOODROW WILSONNo man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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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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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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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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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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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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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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