There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
WOODROW WILSONThe man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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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.
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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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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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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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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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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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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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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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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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