I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
WOODROW WILSONThe cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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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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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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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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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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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 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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