“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
WOODROW WILSONAmerica cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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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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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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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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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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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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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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