When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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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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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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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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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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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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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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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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