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 WILSONA presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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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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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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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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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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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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