I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
WOODROW WILSONWe grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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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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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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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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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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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 do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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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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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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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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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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