No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
WOODROW WILSONJefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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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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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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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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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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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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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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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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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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The 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.
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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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