There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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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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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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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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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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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