Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
WOODROW WILSONThis was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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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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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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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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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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