I 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.
WOODROW WILSONI believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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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.
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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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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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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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