It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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We grow by our dreams.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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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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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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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.
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Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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