Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
WOODROW WILSONYou cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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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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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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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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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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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 ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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