No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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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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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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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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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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No 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.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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