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.
WOODROW WILSONIf a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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Jefferson’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.
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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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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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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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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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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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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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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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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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