To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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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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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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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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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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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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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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