The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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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The seed of revolution is repression.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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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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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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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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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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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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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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