You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
WOODROW WILSONPower consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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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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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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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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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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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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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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