Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
WOODROW WILSONThe 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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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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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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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 ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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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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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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