We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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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I 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.
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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.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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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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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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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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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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