It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
WOODROW WILSONWe grow by our dreams.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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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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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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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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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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