I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
WOODROW WILSONI 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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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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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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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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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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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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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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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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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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