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.
WOODROW WILSONIs 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?
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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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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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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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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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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