Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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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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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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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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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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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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