High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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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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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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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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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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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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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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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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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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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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