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.
WOODROW WILSONThe ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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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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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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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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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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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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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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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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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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