Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
WOODROW WILSONSometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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 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.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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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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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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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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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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