The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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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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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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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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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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