There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
WOODROW WILSONIt’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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Sometimes 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.
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We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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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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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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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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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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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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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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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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